 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 270 strani
... 600079050R ADDISON'S WORKS. VOLUME THE FOURTH. WHOEVER WISHES TO ATTAIN AN ENGLISH STYLE, FAMILIAR...ELEGANT BUT NOT OSTENTATIOUS, MUST GIVE HIS DAYS AND XICHTS TO THE VOLUMES OF ADDISON. DR. JOHNSON. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. IN FOUR VOLUMES.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 strani
...dulcet, graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign of Henry I. Already possessed... | |
 | Homer - 1831 - 154 strani
...beautifully printed to match in size the various editions of the British Essayists, in royal 18mo. I/. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — DR. JoHNSON. '['HE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, including sixteen Letters never before... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 strani
...is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...are voluble and easy '. Whoever wishes to attain an 1 When Johnson showed me a proof-sheet of the character of Addison, in which he so highly extols his... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - 548 strani
...graceful, idiomatic flow of language ilcel, si , whicn amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, mu .1 give his days and nights to the volich Pope ly upon the , a unies of Addison. *J ADELARD, or... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - 548 strani
...dulcet, graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 strani
...; 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 strani
...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,... | |
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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, HUGHES. 
