 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 Seiten
...amplitude, nor affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. l •Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall, under this year, say all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 Seiten
...brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. ' Whoever. wishes toattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."2 . Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall, under this year, say... | |
 | John Watkins - 1821 - 1570 Seiten
...unmarried, in 1797. Dr. Johnson, after drawing his character in a forcible and elegant manner says, " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give hia days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Hing. Jirit. Johnson's Poets. ADELARD, a monk of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 Seiten
...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. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great poet! shall thy sacred lays Provoke our wonder,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 Seiten
...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 under this year, say... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 Seiten
...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 under this year, say... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 298 Seiten
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give bis days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 Seiten
...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 so ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. VI... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 Seiten
...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 so ; and in another JMS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. vi... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 Seiten
...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*." Nothing can be more glaringly exnggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
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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. 
