 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 páginas
...studied 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 Addiso Perhaps it is not too much to... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 páginas
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though 40 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. — Dr. Johnson. EXERCISE XXXI.... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 páginas
...to be what we are, than affect to be what we are not." 13. " Whoever teaches must analyze." ^ 14. " 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." 15. "What is affected, can... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 páginas
...sensorium\ of the Godhead, * This elegant writer was born in 1672, and died in 1719. Dr. Johnson 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." t The seat of sense and perception.... | |
 | 1853 - 528 páginas
...writer, who was possibly the soundest because the most nnimpassioned critic we can boast of, added that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nighis to the volumes of Addison." Swift—shrewd, caustic, with... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 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. — Johnson. Under these Seven... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 páginas
...he publishes his history of the present age.' He has a great admiration for Addison's writings : ' 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.' This remarkable book has afforded... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 páginas
...he lavishes the honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever 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 Addison." Of those poets who rank... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...invention." As for Addison's prose, Johnson considered it "the model of the middle style," and concluded 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." Addison mediated between town... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1983 - 202 páginas
...follow Cobbett here. "At the end of his Life of Addison, Dr. Johnson observes that "Whoever wishes i0 attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Number 41 1. "There are, indeed,... | |
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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. 
