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 have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Seite 111von Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1082 Seiten
...Svo. 6 vols, with portrait, 3/. 12s. Large Paper, 5Í. 8s. Dr. Johnson observed of Addison. ' Whorter wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' — The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, and Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in 1701,1702, 1703,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 Seiten
...language of conversation; yet, if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost semcwhat of its genuine anglicism. What he attempted, he performed...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
| William Gray - 1835 - 124 Seiten
...printed upon a superfine wove paper, with plates of medals, 4 vols. foolscap Svo. cloth boards, \l. "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Dr. Johnson, rpHE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF SIR PHILIP *- SIDNEY ; with a Life of the Author, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 Seiten
...stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods, thougn nt, and a wider acquaintance with the world, soon...astonishment, as of many other prejudices and errors. * But, Bars Dr. Wanon, he sometimci u so ; and la anolber MS. note he adds, often so.— C. HUGHES.... | |
| Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 Seiten
...as to his literary merit, we do not differ widely, if any, from Dr. Johnson. " Whoever," says he, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." We have alluded to the licentiousness and obscurity of such dramatic authors of old, as Aristophanes... | |
| Timothy Mather Cooley - 1837 - 358 Seiten
...Addison received his entire approbation : — " Whoever wishes to » Vol. ii., page 581, Life of Akennd*. attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Of the Spectator he used to say, with the exception of Mr. Addison's papers and some others, it contained... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 572 Seiten
...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." With all deference to the Doctor, who, by the formal cut of his own sentence just quoted, shows, that... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 536 Seiten
...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." With all deference to the Doctor, who, by the formal cut of his own sentence just quoted, shows, that... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 Seiten
...writing. It is the language of the great Johnson, that, ' 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.' Young, to great diversity of thought, added an affluent magnificence of language. Pope scattered over... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1839 - 538 Seiten
...Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant out not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison," ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign of Henry I. Already possessed... | |
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