 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pàgines
...rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble...attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and * [When Johnson shewed me a proof-sheet of. the character of Addison, in which he so highly extols... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 680 pàgines
...though so easy, familiar, and elegant, to an Englishman, as to give the intellect no trouble ; yet he Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison ' .' Though The Rambler was not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pàgines
...though so easy, familiar, and elegant, to an Englishman, as to give the intellect no trouble ; yet he Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison'.' Though The Rambler was not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pàgines
...though so easy, familiar, and elegant, to an Englishman, as to give the intellect no trouble ; yet he Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison'.' Though The Rambler was not... | |
 | John Aikin - 1799 - 790 pàgines
...few will call in question. " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Life of Addison, in the English Poets) " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The fafts in the preceding... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pàgines
...intellectual wealth," might be justly affixed as a motto to the volumes of Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pàgines
...justly affixed as a motto to the volumes of Burke. V1U ADVERTISEMENT. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 601 pàgines
...intellectual wealth," might he justly affixed as a motto to the volumes of Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view,... | |
 | James Hardie - 1801 - 530 pàgines
...language retains its purity, or any authors, who have written in it, continue to be read. In short, whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar-, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give liis days and nights to the volumes of Addison. As a man, it is impossible... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pàgines
...sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dilligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain...style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD... | |
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Whoever •wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. 
