 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 str.
...few will call in question "Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Life of Addison, in the English Poets) •'" wishes to attain an English style, familiar •but...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The papers in the Spectator, claimed for , are in number two hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 376 str.
...amplitude nor 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 ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he tomitimes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 str.
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 str.
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...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 - 1820 - 430 str.
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 str.
...nor affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. l •Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...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,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1821 - 1570 str.
...in 1797. 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, a monk of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 str.
...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 str.
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not...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 str.
...amplitude, nor 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 bis days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great... | |
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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... 
