 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 662 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...[JOHNSON'S eulogium upon the prose style of ADDISON has almost passed into a proverb. " Whoever," says he, " 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." Addison wrote a Tragedy, under... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1846 - 336 páginas
...Works of Joseph Addison. Including " The Spectator" entire. 3 vols. 8vo. Portrait. Sheep extra. $550. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to iho volumes of Addison. — Dr. Johnson. xxxrv. DRAPER... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1846 - 178 páginas
...Works of Joseph Addison. Including " The Spectator" entire. 3 vols. 8vo. Portrait. Sheep extra. $550. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the Yolumes of Addison. — Dr. Johnson, xxxiv. DRAPER... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 páginas
...Works of Joseph Addison. Including " The Spectator" entire. 3 vols. 8vo. Portrait. Sheep extra. $5 50. 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, XXXIV. DRAPER... | |
 | John Armstrong - 1846 - 314 páginas
...Works of Joseph Addison. Including " The Spectator" entire. 3 vols. 8vo. Portrait. Sheep extra. 85 50. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to iha volumes of Addison.— Dr. Johnson. xxxiv. ORAPER... | |
 | Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols - 1846 - 328 páginas
...Works of Joseph Addison. Including "The Spectator" entire. 3 vols. 8vo. Portrait. Sheep extra, f 5 50. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to ths tolumes of Addison. — Z>r. Johnson. xxxiv. DRAPER... | |
 | 384 páginas
...into vulgarity nor his wit to buffoonery. Dr. Johnson closes up his life of Addison in these words: "Whoever wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant hut not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison". For elegance and majesty... | |
 | David Creamer - 1848 - 488 páginas
...heads this article. Dr. Johnson assigns to him the highest place among prose writers, when he says, " 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." None will dispute this high... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.4 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." 5 Though the Rambler was not... | |
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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. 
