 | 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 Seiten
...trouble ; yet be would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not imposattain Addison2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was the same in conversation as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 Seiten
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.(i) Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must (1) When Johnson showed me a proof sheet of the character of Addison, in which he so highly extols... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 Seiten
...amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addition. * But, says Dr. Wnrton, he somtthnet U an j and ip another MS. note he adds, often so.—... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...invention." As for Addison's prose, Johnson considered it "the model of the middle style," and concluded that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Addison mediated between town and country, between landed gentry and prosperous citizen, even— to... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1983 - 202 Seiten
...follow Cobbett here. "At the end of his Life of Addison, Dr. Johnson observes that "Whoever wishes i0 attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Number 41 1. "There are, indeed, but very few, who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish... | |
 | Dieter Stein (linguiste).), Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade - 1994 - 342 Seiten
...amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." (Edition printed in 1 777, by J. Parker & Co., Oxford.) Ì o Q Addison 9 Steele 12 Swift 29 Shaftes.... | |
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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. 
