 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 Sportsman - Seite 27Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 680 Seiten
...of his wife, of Addison the immortal Essayist. Here he formed that style which subsequently gave BO great a charm to his writings ; following, as he has...reach, although often " a long reach," of four of the most renowned packs of fox-hounds of the day — the Quorn, the Pytchley with John Warde then at... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 Seiten
...the intellect no trouble ; yet he Whoever Aetat.41.] BoswelVs projected works. 261 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 Addison1.' Though The Rambler was not concluded till... | |
 | John Aikin - 1799 - 582 Seiten
...call in question. " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Lifeof 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 faäs in the preceding account are taken... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 Seiten
...familiar, and elegant, to an Englishman, as to give the intellect no trouble ; yet he 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 Seiten
...be justly affixed as a motto to the volumes of Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " 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." He who has this object in view, may surely,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 Seiten
...be justly affixed as a motto to the volume* of Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " 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." He who has this object in view, may surely,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 Seiten
...be justly aflixed as a motto to the volumes ot Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " 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." He who has this object in view, may surely,... | |
 | James Beattie - 1803 - 240 Seiten
...honours of literary applause more liberally than on you ? Have I not said, that " who" ever 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 Ad" dison f" ADDISON. You have indeed bestowed... | |
 | 1803 - 420 Seiten
...affected brevity : his periods, though not dilligently 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. TO i . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS;... | |
 | 1803 - 434 Seiten
...affected brevity : his periods, though not dilligently 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. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS;... | |
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