 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...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 ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain,— SPECTATOR. THERE were... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and his nights to the volumes of Addison." Of those poets who rank in the highest class after... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 páginas
...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 ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is S9 ; and in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 516 páginas
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes1 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. ' l Thii life, which appeared in the preceding edition... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...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 ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year... | |
 | 1824 - 604 páginas
...instance recorded, in the life of that great genius, of whom Dr. Johnson says, " 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." The instance referred to is recorded in Mr. Exley's... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 páginas
...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 papers in the Spectator, claimed for , are in number... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 376 páginas
...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, he tomitimes... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...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 ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 páginas
...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 ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London,... | |
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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... 
