 | 1871 - 878 sider
...of Swift ; De Foe, and " many hundreds " of others wrote something quite as good ; it only wanted " plain good sense, natural feeling, unpretendingness,...practice in putting together the clockwork of sentences, and above all, the advantage of" an appropriate subject. Could Swift, he asks, have written a pendant... | |
 | 1847 - 610 sider
...hundred of religious writers. And what wonder should there be in this, when the main qualifications for such a style was plain good sense, natural feeling, unpretendingness, some little scholarly practico in putting together the clockwork of sentences, so as to avoid mechanical awkwardness of construction,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1855 - 312 sider
...may call Irish exotic ; for Hibernicisms he certainly has. This merit, however, is exhibited—not, as you fancy, in a graceful artlessness, but in a...instinctively to reject ornament, lest it should draw off attention from itself ? Such subjects are common ; but grand impassioned subjects insist upon a... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1855 - 318 sider
...the excellence, in the style of Swift, he had it in common with multitudes beside of that age. De Foe wrote a style for all the world the same as to kind...instinctively to reject ornament, lest it should draw off attention from itself ? Such subjects are common ; but grand impassioned subjects insist upon a... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 316 sider
...the excellence, in the style of Swift, he had it in common with multitudes beside of that age. De Foe wrote a style for all the world the same as to kind...instinctively to reject ornament, lest it should draw ofF attention from itself ? Such subjects are common ; but grand impassioned subjects insist upon a... | |
 | 1871 - 830 sider
...admirers of Swift; DeFoe, and "many hundreds" of others wrote something quite as good ; it only wanted " plain good sense, natural feeling, unpretendingness,...practice in putting together the clockwork of sentences, and abovo all, the advantage of" an appropriate subject. Could Swift, he asks, have written a pendant... | |
 | 1871 - 834 sider
...admirers of Swift; Do Foe, and "many hundreds" of others wrote something quite as good ; it only wanted " plain good sense, natural feeling, unpretendingness,...practice in putting together the clockwork of sentences, and above all, the advantage of" an appropriate subject. Could Swift, he asks, have written a pendant... | |
 | 1871 - 846 sider
...of Swift ; De Foe, and " many hundreds " of others wrote something quite as good ; it only wanted " plain good sense, natural feeling, unpretendingness,...practice in putting together the clockwork of sentences, and above all, the advantage of" an appropriate subject. Could Swift, he asks, have written a pendant... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1873 - 596 sider
...the excellence, in the style of Swift, he had it in common with multitudes beside of that age. De Foe wrote a style for all the world the same as to kind...instinctively to reject ornament, lest it should draw off attention from itself ? Such subjects are common ; but grand impassioned subjects insist upon a... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 418 sider
...admirers of Swift; De Foe and ' many hundreds ' of others wrote something quite as good; it only wanted ' plain good sense, natural feeling, unpretendingness,...practice in putting together the clockwork of sentences, and above all, the advantage of an appropriate subject. Could Swift, he asks, have written a pendant... | |
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And what wonder should there be in this, when the main qualification for such a style was plain good sense, natural feeling, unpretendingness, some little scholarly practice in putting together the clockwork of sentences, so as to avoid mechanical awkwardness... 
