Dr. Morillo ENG462

Johnson’s style: on Young Men of Spirit and Gaiety (Johnson 794):

To such societies he was readily admitted, but a few days brought him back weary and disgusted.

Their mirth was without images,

their laughter (was) without motive;

their pleasures were gross and sensual, in which the mind had no part;

their conduct was at once wild and mean;

they laughed at order and law, but the frown of power dejected (them)

and the eye of wisdom abashed them.

Subject = red

Verb = blue

4 main clauses in tetrapartite periods; modified use of Ciceronian cola to express proportioned argument