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" His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 141
by Samuel Johnson - 1820
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentence?. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendor. It seems to have been...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrnpulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable,...easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.- His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendor. It seems to have been his principal...
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The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of Grammar

David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...Fitzosborne, Let. xxix. f Johnson's Life of .Cowley. {Goldsmith's Essays, vol iii. Essay xx. lion i tion ; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words,...luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. i....,, . : " It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling, pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. Tt was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore...
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Microcosm. General index

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...the model of the Middle Style."—" On grave subjects not formal; on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace;«he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous;...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendor. It seems to have been his principal...
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The microcosm [ed. by G. Canning and others]. [Another]

George Canning - 1825 - 312 pages
...model of the "middle style."' 'On grave subjects not formal — on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes with unexpected splendour; if his language had been less idiomatical (this is his adoption of vulgar...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 506 pages
...is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling, pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious orna^ ments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 508 pages
...is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling, pure without, scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison ne\er deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...elaboration ; always equable and always easy, without flowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never eviates from his track to snatch a grace : he seeks...
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