 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
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 Seiten
...affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently r'ounded, 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, be sometimes is so;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 Seiten
...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, be sometimes is so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 Seiten
...affected brevity ; his periods, though ncft 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 Di-. AYarton, he sometimes is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 Seiten
...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 so... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 Seiten
...success. I 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." In his remarks on the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, he has fallen into the same mistake with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 512 Seiten
...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. ' ' This life, which appeared in the preceding... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 510 Seiten
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wisbei 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 This life, which appeared in the preceding... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 Seiten
...its characteristic excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever,1' says Johnson, " 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.'' Whoever would add to these the qualities... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...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... | |
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