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 Enquirer - Strona 376autor: William Godwin - 1823 - Liczba stron: 411Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - Liczba stron: 376
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison *." The public has in a great measure sanctioned the opinions of these truly learned and discerning... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - Liczba stron: 378
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison *." The public has in a great measure sanctioned the opinions of these truly learned and discerning... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - Liczba stron: 322
...attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid, and never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. " BLACKMORE. SIR RICHARD BLACK MORE was the son of Robert Blackmore, of Corsham in Wiltshire, supposed... | |
| Henry Kett - 1805 - Liczba stron: 432
...merits of this celebrated author, as well as to remark * " Whoever wishes to acquire a style which is familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." " Life of Addison." t I allude to such words as Resuscitation, orbity, fatuity, divaricate, asinine,... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - Liczba stron: 696
...acquired from the attempt. ' Whoever wishes (says Johnson) to attain an English style, familiar and not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' Such a style is, on the whole, the most useful, perhaps the most elegant, if it be true, as the criticks... | |
| Henry Kett - 1805 - Liczba stron: 422
...celebrated author, as well as to remark * " Whoever wishes to acquire a style which is familiar but hot coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." " Life of Addison." f I allude to such words as Resuscitation, orbity, fatuity, divaricate, asinine,... | |
| James Hardie - 1805 - Liczba stron: 536
...language retains itspurity, 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 ostentutiotm, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. But, last of all, let us view... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1805 - Liczba stron: 190
...success. J know that he " gave his days and nights to Addison," and it was by this that he attained an English style " familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious." * About the year 1778 he printed a Letter to Dr. Blair " On the Improvement of Psalmody in Scotland."... | |
| Philip Massinger - 1805 - Liczba stron: 540
...roughness, ;, that jt3 characteristick excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever," says Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant time, taken up by Thomas Coxeter, of whom I know nothing more than is delivered by Mr. Egerton Brydges,... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - Liczba stron: 514
...himself: " What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 1 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
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