 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 páginas
...writings ; following, as he has recorded it, Doctor Johnson's advice, who recommends those " who would attain an English style — familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious — to give their days and nights to the volumes of Addison." But Biiton had other points... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1840 - 590 páginas
...rouyhneu, that its characteristic excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever/ 1 Pays Johnson, "wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not o>ientatioiiii, inoM give his days and nights to the volumes of Addieon." Whoever would add to tlieae... | |
 | John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840 - 536 páginas
...vols. royal 8vo. LARGE PAPER, published at £5. Bm Reduced to £2. 8s. Both in extra cloth hoards. " WHOEVER WISHES TO ATTAIN AN ENGLISH STYLE, FAMILIAR, BUT NOT COARSE, AND ILLGANT, BUT NOT O3I ENTAI1OUS, MUST GIV«> HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS 1O THE VOLUMES Or ," — Dr. Juiinion.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes tu 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, the son... | |
 | 1847 - 662 páginas
...literature what it is. As a prose writer, he to this day continues to deserve Johnson's eulogium : — " 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." Somewhat dissipated in his... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1841 - 208 páginas
...has given his unreserved commendation, to the Style of Mr. Addison, in the following words : — " 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. Knox, in his beautiful... | |
 | 1842 - 602 páginas
...model, in favour of which we shall conclude by quoting what Dr. Johnson himself says in its favour : « 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. » THE COST OF A REPUTATlON.... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 páginas
...of his playful manner, and of some of the graces of his style. Of that style Dr. Johnson writes—" 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." He attained the most ornamental... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 410 páginas
...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 his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." We have introduced these somewhat... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 374 páginas
...model for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, 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." With all deference to the 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. 
