 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 392 pages
...provide for the enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked ; and as this practice is a commodious subject of raillery to the gay, and of declamation to the serimis, it has been ridiculed, with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 380 pages
...provide for the enjoyment of that which perhaps may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked : and as this practice is a commodious subject of raillery...declamation to the serious, it has been ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all 1 the amplifications of rhetorick. Every instance,... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...provide for the enjoyment of that which perhaps may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked : and as this practice is a commodious subject of raillery to the gay, and of Acclamation to the serious, it has been ridiculed^ \vVv al! the pkasaniry of wit, and cxaggwauA \xV.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 372 pages
...enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us, lias, been frequenvty teovaxYfiA-, -scad a& this practice is a commodious subject of raillery...declamation to the serious, it has been ridiculed, with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetorick. Every instance,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1809 - 352 pages
...provide for the enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked ; and as this practice is a commodious subject of raillery...declamation to the serious, it has been ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetoric. Every instance,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 394 pages
...provide for the enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked ; and as this practice is a commodious subject of raillery...declamation to the serious, it has been ridiculed, with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetorick. Every instance,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...provide for {he enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked ; and aS this practice is a commodious subject of raillery...gay, and of declamation to the serious, it has been ridieuled with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetoric.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 524 pages
...provide for the enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked ; and as this practice is a commodious subject of raillery...declamation to the serious, it has been ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetorick. Every instance,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 462 pages
...provide for the enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked ; and as this practice is a commodious subject of raillery...declamation to the serious, it has been ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetorick. Every instance,... | |
 | William Cobbett - English language - 1818 - 192 pages
...necessary is it, then, for you to be careful in the use of this powerful little word, it ! PREPOSITIONS. " And, as this practice is a commodious subject " of...it has been ridiculed "—R. No. 123. With the gay, it ought to have been ; for, to the gay, means, that the raillery is addressed to the gay, which w<ts... | |
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And, as this practice is a commodious subject " of raillery to the gay, and of declamation to the " serious, it has been ridiculed ... . ."—R. No. 123. With, the gay; for, to the gay, means, that the raillery is addressed to the gay, which was not the... 
