 ... powers. They are often humorous, almost always light, and have the qualities which recommend such compositions, easiness and gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes...  Letters. Index - עמוד 213מאת Jonathan Swift - 1801תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 דפים
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet; all his verses...places." To divide this collection into classes, and shew how some pieces are gross, and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 דפים
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet; all his verses...places." To divide this collection into classes, and shew how some pieces are gross, and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 דפים
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occur a hard-laboured expression or a redundant epithet; all his verses...places, " To divide this collection into classes, and shew how some pieces are gross, and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1805 - 422 דפים
...correct, his numbers smooth, and his rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a laboured expression, or ^ redundant epithet. All his verses exemplify his own...definition of a good style ; they consist of proper ivords in proper places" But the levity with which he frequently treats the most serious subjects is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 דפים
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard.laboured expression, or a redundant epithet ; all his verses...places." To divide this collection into classes, and shew how some pieces are gross, and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 דפים
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet ; all his verses...places." To divide this collection into classes, and shew how some pieces are gross, and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 דפים
...the rhymes, exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epitbet ; all bis verses exemplify his own definition of a good style, they consist of " proper words ia proper places." To divide this collection into classes, and show how some- pieces are gross, and... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 דפים
...most part what the author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard laboured expression,...style, they consist of "proper words in proper places." It was said, in a Preface to one of the Irish Editions, that Swift had never been .known to take a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 דפים
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression or a redundant epithet ; all his verses...places. To divide this collection into classes, and shew how some pieces are gross and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 דפים
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet; all his verses exemplify his own definition of a good stile — they consist of ' proper words in proper place's'." As an historian Swift is entitled to... | |
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