 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pàgines
...publication of Dr. Johnson's " Lives of the Poets," it has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant out not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." That few, however,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 pàgines
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy/ Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant butnot ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."y Though the Rambler... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pàgines
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen of London, and of Anne... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pàgines
...amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. LIFE OF POPE, Of his intellectual character, the constituent and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pàgines
...As. a model of English prose, his writings merit the greatest praise. " Whoever," says Dt. Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." AKENSIDE, Mark, — an English poet and physician, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pàgines
...amplitude, nor affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. . . ' But, says Dr. Warton,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pàgines
...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an I^nglish style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. i' I 'mi. says Dr. Warton, he som«tiinei is so; and, in another... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pàgines
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy P. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addisonq." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pàgines
...amplitnde nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES. JOHN II re in •s, the son of a citizen in London, and of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 442 pàgines
...observing, that it had not been his own model, as no two styles could differ more from each other. — "Sir, to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V * Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall,... | |
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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... 
