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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... "
The Sportsman - Seite 27
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The universal biographical dictionary; or, An historical account of the ...

John Watkins - 1821 - 1570 Seiten
...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 hia days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Hing. Jirit. Johnson's Poets. ADELARD,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Band 1

James Boswell - 1821 - 394 Seiten
...affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. l •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."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Band 1

James Boswell - 1821 - 398 Seiten
...brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. ' Whoever. wishes toattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."2 . Though the Rambler was not concluded till...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 304 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. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 Seiten
...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...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 Seiten
...affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently 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...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 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...
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The Enquirer

William Godwin - 1823 - 444 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*." Nothing can be more glaringly exnggerated...
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The Author's Jewel: Consisting of Essays, Miscellaneous, Literary and Moral

Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 Seiten
...without some variation of their original form. Since Johnson, however, has said " that whoever wished 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," Addison, has been imitated and refined on,...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 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...
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