 | James Beattie - 1803 - 240 páginas
...lavished the honours of literary applause more liberally than on you ? Have I not said, that " who" ever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but " not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and his nights to the volumes of Ad" dison f" ADDISON. You have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 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. " BLACKMORE. SIR RICHARD BLACK... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 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 *." The public has in a great... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 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 *." The public has in a great... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1805 - 540 páginas
...roughness, ;, that jt3 characteristick excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever," says Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant time, taken up by Thomas Coxeter, of whom I know nothing more than is delivered by Mr. Egerton Brydges,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 1 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."* Though the Rambler was not... | |
 | John Watkins - 1807 - 1014 páginas
...unmarried, in 17;)7. 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 his days ami nights to the volumes of Addison." — .#%• Brit. AJdimiMas,... | |
 | James Beattie, James Hay Beattie - 1807 - 212 páginas
...lavished the honours of literary applause more liberally than on you ? Have I not said, that " who" ever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but " not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and his nights to the volumes of Ad" dison ?" ADDISON. You have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 páginas
...notes to his Life in the Britannica, 2il edit. • VOL. I. C has become almost proverbial to repeat, 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." That few, however, are willing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 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. 'But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes... | |
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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. 
