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...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. 1 Chap. iv. See also Nathan Drake, Essays, II, 117-167; and AS Cook's preface to his edition of Addison's...

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...prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendor. It was apparently his principal endeavor to avoid all harshness and severity of diction;...

...is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions^ not groveling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendor. It was apparently his principal endeavor to avoid all harshness and severity of diction;...

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