 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1800 - 452 pages
...little; it is certainly informing, and full of good matter ; but it is as certain too, that the ftylc is execrable : where the devil he picked it up, I cannot conceive, for it is a bad Ityle,1 of a new and fingular kind; it is full of Latinifms, Gallicifms, Germanifms, and all ifms but... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1804 - 432 pages
...little ; it is certainly informing, and full of good matter ; but it is as certain too, that the ftyle is execrable : where the devil he picked it up, I cannot conceive, for it is a bad ftyle, of a new and fmgular kind ; it i| full of Latinifins, Gallicifms, vOL. iv, « 170 LOKD CHESTERFIELD'S... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...informing, and full of good matter : but it is as certain too, that the style is cxecrablo : where the d 1 he picked it up, I cannot conceive, for it is a bad...Latinisms, Gallicisms, Germa'nisms, and all isms but Anglicisms : in some places pompous, in others vulgar and low." November 27, 176%. " Harfe is going... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...matter : but it is as certain too, that the style is execrable : where the d 1 he picked it tap, 1 cannot conceive, for it is a bad style, of a new and...full of Latinisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and all Lmt but Anglicisms : in some places pompous, in others vulgar and low." November 27, 1762. " Harte... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (Earl of) - 1810 - 446 pages
...too that the style is execrahle : where the devil he picked ii up, I cannot conceive, for it is a had style, of a new and singular kind ; it is full of Latinisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and all isms hut Anglicisms ; in some places pompous, in others vulgar and low. Surely, hefore the end of the world,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 402 pages
...as eertain too that the style is exeerable ; where the devil he pieked it up, I eannot eoneeive, tor it is a bad style, of a new and singular kind ; it is full of Latinisms, Gallieisms, Germanisms, and all isms but Anglieisms ; in some plaees pompous, in others vulgar and... | |
 | Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 408 pages
...sells very little: it is certainly informing, and full of good matter ; but it is as certain too, that the style is execrable : where the devil he picked...Latinisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and all isms but Anglicisms ; in some places pompous, in others vulgar and low. Surely, before the end of the world,... | |
 | 1838 - 1080 pages
...Gustavus, published in 1759:—" Harte's history does not take at all ... it is full of good matter, but the style is execrable : — where the devil he picked...Latinisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and all -isms but Anglicisms ; in some places pompous, in others vulgar and low." (Letters to his Son, 16th April, 1759.)... | |
 | 1838 - 782 pages
...Gugtavus, published in 1759:—" Harte's history does not take at all ... it is full of good matter, but the style is execrable :— where the devil he picked...bad style of a new and singular kind : it is full of Latiuisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and all -ismt bat Anglicisms ; in some places pompous, in others... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...Graffia Halm-HaUn. Berlin, 1844, 3 BUnde. 70 D'AMgnes History of the Reformation. [Mar. Gustavus Adolpbus does not take at all the style is execrable ; where...for the usurper's desolating campaign in Ireland, p. 451 — 456, with the entire Fifth Part, and also his " Introduction," for the ascription of transcendent... | |
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Adolphus does not take at all, and consequently sells very little: it is certainly informing, and full of good matter ; but it is as certain too, that the style is execrable : where the devil he picked it up, I cannot conceive, for it is a bad style,... 
