 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 páginas
...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 the year 1752, 1 shall,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great poet! shall... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 298 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give bis days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 páginas
...any classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUKNEY.] style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 páginas
...classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUBNEY.] • style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families, which, from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another JMS.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note,... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exnggerated than this praise. Addison... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 páginas
...without some variation of their original form. Since Johnson, however, has said " that whoever wished to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison," Addison, has been imitated and refined on, till what was familiar... | |
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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... 
