 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 sidor
...thcdiscriminatioiHo be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addi'"" "'" son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 sidor
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addip' 8 ' son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 596 sidor
...the enlogium of Johnson, that ** whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarae, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to tbe volumes of Addison." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an Englieh Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign... | |
 | James Boswell - 1832 - 616 sidor
...,• yet he would find the transfusion into Another language extremely difficult, if not imposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison3." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was the same in conversation as... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 538 sidor
...justifies theenlogiutn of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but nul coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ADKI.AIU), or ATHELARD, an English Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign of Henry I. Already... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 sidor
...; yet he would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not iniposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison 2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was p.^' the same in conversation as... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1082 sidor
...Svo. 6 vols, with portrait, 3/. 12s. Large Paper, 5Í. 8s. Dr. Johnson observed of Addison. ' Whorter wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' — The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, and Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in 1701,1702,... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 sidor
...printed upon a superfine wove paper, with plates of medals, 4 vols. foolscap Svo. cloth boards, \l. "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Dr. Johnson, rpHE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF SIR PHILIP *- SIDNEY ; with a Life of the Author, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 sidor
...trouble . yet be would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not imposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was p. 153! the same in conversation... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 sidor
...as to his literary merit, we do not differ widely, if any, from Dr. Johnson. " Whoever," says he, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." We have alluded to the licentiousness and obscurity of such dramatic authors of old, as Aristophanes... | |
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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... 
