 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 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...exuberance and copiousness, who diffuses every thought thro' so many diversities of expression, that it is lost like water in a mist. The ponderous dictator... | |
 | 1886 - 840 pages
...AGE. VOL. LVI. 2872 i 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 '• 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... 
