 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 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. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is S9 ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. O- •'... | |
 | John Pickering - 1816 - 220 sidor
...Cicero valde placebit ;" and of whom Dr. Johnson emphatically says — " whoever " would attain a good English style, familiar but not " coarse, and elegant...his " days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Dr. Franklin, who in his Life informs us that it was one of tJie greatest objects of his ambition to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 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." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1759, I shall, under .this year, say all that I... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 sidor
...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 of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 516 sidor
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes1 to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' l Thii life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dietionary, \i an abi al guuut of that... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1817 - 606 sidor
...love of what is excellent, but with a readiness to imitate it. " Whoever wishes," says Dr. Johnson, " to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." CHAP. XVII. ON HISTORY. Utility, pleasures, and advantages attendant on the study of History ; illustrated... | |
 | James Beattie - 1817 - 450 sidor
...scrupulosity, and * exact without apparent elaboration ; always equa* ble, and always eas,y.—Whoever wishes to attain ' an English style, familiar but...must give his days ' and nights to the volumes of Addison.'—See more on this subject in a Preface to an edition of Addison's papers, printed at Edinburgh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 432 sidor
...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 Addi*on. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family... | |
 | 1818 - 762 sidor
...declaring : " whoever " wishes to attain an English style, " familiar but not coarse, and ele" gant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and nights to the " volumes of Addison !" When by orders from the Court of Directors, it was proposed in 1796 to establish an academy at Calcutta,... | |
 | 1818 - 654 sidor
...declaring : " whoever " wishes to attain an English style, " familiar but not coarse, and ele" gant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and nights to the " volumes of Addison !" When by orders from the Court of Directors, it was proposed in 1796 to establish an academy at Calcutta,... | |
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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... 
