 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he <hen transfers his consideration from words to sounds,...he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible. Agriculture. Idler, vol. 1. Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches we can... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he (hen transfers his consideration from words to sounds,...he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible. Idler, vol. 1. Agriculture. Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches we can... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1886 - 524 pages
...shortly classified som« of the species of authors whose " labours counteract themselves." There is "the man of exuberance and copiousness, who diffuses...expression, that it is lost like water in a mist; " there is " the liberal illustrator, who shows by examples and comparisons what was clearly seen when... | |
 | 1886 - 508 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible." Then are shortly classified some of the species of authors whose " labours counteract themselves."... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...difficult to enumerate every species of authors whose labors counteract themselves: the man of exuberance and copiousness, who diffuses every thought through... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...difficult to enumerate every species of authors whose labors counteract themselves: the man of exuberance and copiousness, who diffuses every thought through... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...seritiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...difficult to enumerate every species of authors whose labors counteract themselves: the. man of exuberance and copiousness, who diffuses every thought through... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...elegant becomes less intelligible. It is difficult to enumerate every species of authors whose labors counteract themselves: the man of exuberance and copiousness,...diversities of expression, that it is lost like water in a mill; the ponderous dictator of sentences, whose notions are delivered in the lump, and are, like uncoined... | |
 | 1820 - 980 pages
...because the pocket of the purchaser and the patience of the reader are both deeply interested. Theman of exuberance and copiousness, who diffuses every...expression, that it is lost, like water in a mist, should be beheld, as an ancient Jew looked on a Roman tax-gatherer ; for such an one comes to levy... | |
 | 1886 - 848 pages
...A«E. VOL. LVI. 2872 received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to...he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible." Then arc shortly classified some of the species of authors whose '• labors counteract themselves.''... | |
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... and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease... 
