 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sidor
...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...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Addison mediated between town and country, between landed gentry and prosperous citizen, even— to... | |
 | 1898 - 1612 sidor
...xtra, Ids. The Tatler and Guardian. Complete in i vol. crown 8vo, cloth extra, 55. Dr. JOHNSON.—" Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the study of Addison." ARABIAN NIGHTS : The Thousand and One Nights. Translated by EDWARD WILLIAM LANE.... | |
 | Dieter Stein (linguiste).), Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade - 1994 - 342 sidor
...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." (Edition printed in 1 777, by J. Parker & Co., Oxford.) Ì o Q Addison 9 Steele 12 Swift 29 Shaftes.... | |
 | James Kinsley, Helen Kinsley - 1995 - 428 sidor
...found more nearly to resemble this great author than any other English writer. Dr. Johnson has said, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." 2 He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled to study the pages... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 sidor
...syntactical futurity. Even Johnson's praise displays a tincture of un-Addisonian syntactic suspense: "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Lives of the English Poets, ed. G. Birkbeck Hill, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895), 2.150. Subsequent... | |
 | Jane Stuart Smith, Betty Carlson - 1997 - 212 sidor
...sun, but not these essays . . ." "Whosoever wishes to attain an English style," wrote Samuel Johnson, "familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the study of Addison." Addison himself believed that artistry and excellence of subject matter were imperative.... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - 330 sidor
..."middle style" derives from Samuel Johnson, who ends his life of Addison with the following advice: "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison" (Lives of the English Poets [London: JM Dent and Sons, 1954], vol. 1, 368). See as well the analysis... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 sidor
...thinks long it commonly attains to think right. Lives of the English /'oci.v 1 1 774 X П 'Addison' 24 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Uves of the English Poets ( 1 779-81 ) 'Addison' IS The great source of pleasure is variety. Uniformity... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - 1999 - 332 sidor
...advising the would-be writer and mediating between Pope's high claims and Addison's high-middle ones: "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."3 In much eighteenth-century writing, the authors present themselves, relatively distinctly... | |
 | Bill Swainson - 2000 - 1360 sidor
...(1960s) Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and statesman Quotations about Addison 1 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Samuel Johnson (1709-84) British lexicographer and writer. "Addison," Lives of the English Poets (1779-81)... | |
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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... 
