 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 trang
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently 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. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 trang
...As. a model of English prose, his writings merit the greatest praise. " Whoever," says Dt. Johnson, " 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." AKENSIDE, Mark, —... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 trang
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy P. 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 Addisonq." Though the Rambler... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 trang
...amplitnde 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 his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES. JOHN II re in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 trang
...voluble and easy, -f Whoever wishes to attain an Knglish style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but 7 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752,1 shall, under this year, say ail that I have... | |
 | 1829 - 414 trang
...ponderosity of the third. What Johnson said of Addison's style, may be more properly applied to Mr. Hall's, " 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." An eminent critic of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 trang
... 600079048Y fl ADDISON'S WORKS. VOLUME THE SECOND. 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. DR. JOHNSON. THE MISCELLANEOUS... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 trang
...VOLUME THE FIRST. 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. DB. JOHNSON. f THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. OXFORD, PUBLISHED... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1830 - 110 trang
...The same, in 4 vols. crown 8vo. uniform with Pickering's Chaucer, etc. red cloth boards, II. 12s. " 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."—Dn. JOHNSON. These... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 576 trang
...Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, " 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." Mr. Taiboys of Oxford, from whose press many works of standard authors have issued, may vie with the... | |
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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. 
