 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 sidor
...amplitude, nor affected brevity: his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen of London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 556 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. P But, says Dr. Warton, he lometimet is so ; and, in another manuscript note, he adds, often to. HUGHES.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 sidor
...As. a model of English prose, his writings merit the greatest praise. " Whoever," says Dt. Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." AKENSIDE, Mark, — an English poet and physician, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1721. His father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 sidor
...amplitnde 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, HUGHES. JOHN II re in •s, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 sidor
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy P. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addisonq." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall, under this year, say all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 478 sidor
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy P. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of AddisonV Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752,1 shall, under this year, say all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 sidor
...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy, -f Whoever wishes to attain an Knglish style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."* Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752,1 shall, under this year, say ail that I have... | |
 | John Holmes - 1828 - 1352 sidor
...in what peace a Christian " can die." " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, " wishes to attain aii En" glish style, familiar, but not coarse ; and elegant, but...his days and nights to the volumes " of Addison."— [Life of Addison in the English Poets]. In Watts' Bibliotheca Britannica, the Author of the Description... | |
 | 1829 - 414 sidor
...ponderosity of the third. What Johnson said of Addison's style, may be more properly applied to Mr. Hall's, " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." An eminent critic of the present day, speakingofoneofMr. Hall'ssermons,says, " The diction displays... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1830 - 208 sidor
...I. The same, in 4 vols. crown 8vo. uniform with Pickering's Chaucer, etc. red cloth boardt, II. 12s. "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Dn. JOHNSON. These volumes, with the exception of his papers in the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian,... | |
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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... 
