| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 páginas
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though ncft diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...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. r. HUGHES.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 512 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' ' This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of tbis Dictionary, K sn abridgment of lhat... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 510 páginas
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wisbei to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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 of that... | |
| Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 páginas
...roughness, that its characteristic excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever,1' says Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.'' Whoever would add to these the qualities of simplicity, purity, sweetness, and strength, must devote... | |
| Philip Massinger - 1813 - 542 páginas
...of them," &c. Warton too calls Coxeter a faithful and industrious amasser of our old English litebut not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Whoever would add to these the qualities of simplicity, purity, sweetness, and strength, must devote... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain,— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning of the... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...he lavishes the honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and his nights to the volumes of Addison." Of those poets who rank in the highest class after Spenser,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is S9 ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. O- •'... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1759, I shall, under .this year, say all that I have to observe upon it. Some of the translations of... | |
| William Scott - 1817 - 416 páginas
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of AddisoH. IV. — Pleatwre and Pain.— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning... | |
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