 | John Watkins - 1807 - Liczba stron: 1014
...17;)7. Dr. Johnson, after drawing his character in a forcible and elegant manner, says, " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days ami nights to the volumes of Addison." — .#%• Brit. AJdimiMas, S voll. 18O3. ADI: LARD, a monk... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - Liczba stron: 416
...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,...give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON." That few, however, are willing to bestow this labour, or anxious to obtain the reward, is sufficiently... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - Liczba stron: 384
...incomparable critic and biographer :— " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." LETTER IX. ORNAMENT AMPLIFICATION. *WY DEAR JOIfJV, THE real ornaments of composition, whether prose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 620
...affected brevity: bis periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever •wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Or. Wart on, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS note he adds, often so. С TO THE RIGHT... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 664
...affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently r'ounded, are voluble and easy. "Whoever •wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, be sometimes is so; and in another MS note he adds, often so. C TO THE RIGHT... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 422
...affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so j and in another MS note, he adds, often so. C. HUGHES.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 412
...has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiur but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,...give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON." That few, however, are willing to bestow this labour, or anxious to obtain the reward, is sufficiently... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 314
...nor affected brevity; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tbe volumes of Addison." FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD V'ecilia,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 620
...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, mut give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. • But, so ys Dr. Warton, be sometimes is... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - Liczba stron: 312
...affected brevity ; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tue volumes of Addison." II A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD... | |
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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... 
