 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 páginas
...incomparable critic and biographer :— " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." LETTER IX. ORNAMENT AMPLIFICATION. *WY DEAR JOIfJV, THE real ornaments of composition, whether... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 páginas
...brevity: bis periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever •wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Or. Wart on, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS note he adds, often so. С... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 páginas
...brevity: his periods, though not diligently r'ounded, are voluble and easy. "Whoever •wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, be sometimes is so; and in another MS note he adds, often so. C TO... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 412 páginas
...has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiur but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON." That few, however, are willing to bestow this labour, or anxious to obtain the reward, is... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...brevity ; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tue volumes of Addison." II A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...brevity; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tbe volumes of Addison." FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD V'ecilia,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 páginas
...brevity ; his periods, though ncft diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' But, says Di-. AYarton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note he adds., often sn.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 páginas
...brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note he adds, often so. C.... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 páginas
...success. I know that he " gave his days and nights to Addison," and it was by this that he attained an English style " familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious." In his remarks on the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, he has fallen into the same mistake with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 510 páginas
...brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wisbei to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' l This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dictionary, Is an abridgment... | |
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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... 
