Narration in dramatick poetry is naturally tedious, as it is unanimated and inactive, and obstructs the progress of the action; it should therefore always be rapid, and enlivened by frequent interruption.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
For the Sake of our Country, my dear Friend, let me ask, Is our Army perpetually to be an unanimated one; because there is not Fortitude enough to remove those bad Men.
"The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4"
Samuel Adams
In the ground-floor dining-room of that unanimated hotel sat an old gentleman named Brodnax, once of the regular army, a retired veteran of the Mexican war, and very consciously possessed of large means.
"Kincaid's Battery"
George W. Cable