 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 páginas
...rounded, are voluble and easy, -f Whoever wishes to attain an Knglish style, familiar but not coarse, and g r volumes of Addison."* Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752,1 shall, under this year,... | |
 | 1829 - 414 páginas
...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 the present day, speakingofoneofMr. Hall's sermons, says,... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1830 - 110 páginas
...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 volumes, with the exception of his papers in the Spectator,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 páginas
...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 WORKS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. II.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 576 páginas
...composed. " 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,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 páginas
...eulogium of Johnson, that " 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." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 páginas
...try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addi'"" "'" son's prose was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 páginas
...try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addip' 8 ' son's prose was the... | |
 | Homer - 1831 - 154 páginas
...Essayists, in royal 18mo. I/. 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. '['HE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, including sixteen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 páginas
...try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V [His manner of criticising and commending Addi5 ' son's prose was the same in... | |
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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. 
