 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all nis prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of a sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 402 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 402 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, 1 in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
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Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious. 
