 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - 548 σελίδες
...dulcet, graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " 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." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 σελίδες
...; yet he would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not iniposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison 2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was p.^' the same in conversation as... | |
 | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren - 1833 - 560 σελίδες
...printed upon a superfine woes paper, with plates of medals, 4 vols. foolscap 8vo. cloth boards, \l. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant bnt it ostentatious, mnst give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."— Dr. JoknA HISTORICAL... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1082 σελίδες
...Svo. 6 vols, with portrait, 3/. 12s. Large Paper, 5Í. 8s. Dr. Johnson observed of Addison. ' Whorter wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' — The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, and Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in 1701,1702,... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 σελίδες
...printed upon a superfine wove paper, with plates of medals, 4 vols. foolscap Svo. cloth boards, \l. "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...nights to the volumes of Addison." — Dr. Johnson, rpHE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF SIR PHILIP *- SIDNEY ; with a Life of the Author, and illustrative Notes,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 σελίδες
...trouble ; yet be would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not imposattain Addison2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was the same in conversation as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 σελίδες
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.(i) Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must (1) When Johnson showed me a proof sheet of the character of Addison, in which he so highly extols... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 σελίδες
...as to his literary merit, we do not differ widely, if any, from Dr. Johnson. " Whoever," says he, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." We have alluded to the licentiousness and obscurity of such dramatic authors of old, as Aristophanes... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 σελίδες
...invention." As for Addison's prose, Johnson considered it "the model of the middle style," and concluded that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Addison mediated between town and country, between landed gentry and prosperous citizen, even— to... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1983 - 202 σελίδες
...follow Cobbett here. "At the end of his Life of Addison, Dr. Johnson observes that "Whoever wishes i0 attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Number 41 1. "There are, indeed, but very few, who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish... | |
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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... 
