 | 1798 - 992 Seiten
...both long and heavy, when all waspye-balled, full of many sayings of different languages. In short, the common style of sermons was either very flat and...rhetoric to a false pitch of a wrong sublime." The witty and eccentric South will scarcely be ranked 'among the improvers of pulpit eloquence in this... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1823 - 644 Seiten
...according to the subject or the occasion. This was both long and heavy, when all was pye-balled q , full of many sayings of different languages. The common...and good sense; and had got a right notion of style 1 ; for he was in France at a time when they were much set on reforming their language. It soon appeared... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1823 - 642 Seiten
...applications, according to the subject or the occasion. This was both long and heavy, when all was pye-balled % full of many sayings of different languages. The common...true and good sense ; and had got a right notion of style1; for he was in France at a time when they were much set on reforming their language. It soon... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1824 - 330 Seiten
...applications, according to the subject or the occasion. This was both long and heavy, when all was piebald, full of ma.ny sayings of different languages. The...and good sense ; and had got a right notion of style ; for he was in France at a time when they were much set on reforming their language. It soon appeared... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - 806 Seiten
...applications, according to the subject and the occasion. This was both long and heavy, when all was pye-bald, full of many sayings of different languages. The common...low, or swelled up with rhetoric to a false pitch of wrong sublime." * This censure, it must be confessed, was at least partially applicable to the compositions... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 Seiten
...applications, according to the subject or the occasion. This was both long and heavy, when all was pyeballed", full of many sayings of different languages. The common...good sense ; and had got a right notion of style; for he was in France at a time, when they were much set on reforming their language. It soon appeared,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 Seiten
...applications, according to the subject or the occasion. This was both long and heavy, when all waspye-balled*, full of 'many sayings of different languages. The...The king had little or no literature, but true, and * Dean Swift, (Routh's Burnet, i. 330.) very needlessly, sneers at this epithet : it is, surely, most... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1850 - 996 Seiten
...applications, according to the subject, or the occasion. This was both long and heavy, when all was piebald, full of many sayings of different languages. The common...true and good sense ; and had got a right notion of stylo ; for he was in France at a time when they were much set on reforming their language. It soon... | |
 | Herbert Thorndike - 1854 - 650 Seiten
...was pye- balled, full of many sayings of different languages : and " the common style of •ermons was either very flat and low, or swelled up with rhetoric to a false pitch of a wrong sublime." k " Facete de hoc loco" (scil. Luke vi. 1.) "consulentem se Hieronymum elusit Gregorius Nazianzenus,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 530 Seiten
...application, according to the subject or the occasion. This was both long and heavy, when all was piebald, full of many sayings of different languages. The common...rhetoric to a false pitch of a wrong sublime. The king (Charles II.) had little or no literature, but true and good sense, and had got a right notion of style,... | |
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The King had little or no literature, but true and good sense, and had got a right notion of style; for he was in France at a time when they were much set on reforming their language. It soon appeared that he had a true taste. 
