...verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. In endeavoring to avoid vulgar terms he frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in...dress that would be rich enough for the noblest ideas. . . . Sometimes, in his anxiety to vary the phrase he becomes obscure ; and instead of calling his...

...think it necessary to be always eloquent, in which, as well as in some other respects, he reminded me of " that great man, Mr. Prig, the auctioneer, whose manner was so invariably fine that he had as much to say upon a ribbon as upon a Raphael." Your receiving the thanks...

...English" (Porson's Tracts, Preface, p. 46). "In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in...dress that would be rich enough for the noblest ideas. . . . Sometimes in his anxiety to vary his phrase he becomes obscure. . . . Sometimes in his attempts...

...than the staple of his argument.' In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently dignifes trifles, and clothes common thoughts in a splendid...was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say on a ribbon as on a Raphael." It seems as if Gibbon had taken the stilted tone of the old French tragedy...

...verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms, he frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in...dress that would be rich enough for the noblest ideas. . . . Sometimes, in his anxiety to vary the phrase, he becomes obscure, and, instead of calling his...

...verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.' In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in...short we are too often reminded of that great man, Mr. Frig, the auctioneer, whose manner was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say on a ribbon as...

...endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in a dress that would be rich enough for the noblest ideas....short, we are too often reminded of that great man, Mr. Puff, the auctioneer, whose manner was so inimitably fine that ' he had as much to say upon a ribbon...

...out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument, and occasionally reminds us of that great man Mr. Prig, the auctioneer, whose...inimitably fine that he had as much to say upon a ribbon as a Raphael." The style naturally becomes oppressive from its very stateliness, and the mind wearies...

...Gibbon's excellent biographer, Mr. Cotter Morrison, quotes with approval Person's saying of him : " We are too often reminded of that great man, Mr. Prig,...was so inimitably fine that he had as much to say on a ribbon as on a Raphael." While of his political career he says in another passage that it was...

...verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently on a ribbon as on a Raphael.— PORSON, RICHARD, 1790, Letters to Archdeacon Travis. Heard of the death...