 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 sidor
...classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUBNEY.] • style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 sidor
...any classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUKNEY.] style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 sidor
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not 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,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 sidor
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families, which, from the... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 sidor
...amplitude, por affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 sidor
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another JMS.... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 sidor
...without some variation of their original form. Since Johnson, however, has said " that whoever wished to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison," Addison, has been imitated and refined on, till what was familiar... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 sidor
...publication of Dr. Johnson's " Lives of the Poets," it has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant out not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." That few, however,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 sidor
...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 butnot ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."y Though the Rambler... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 sidor
...nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen of London, and of Anne... | |
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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... 
