 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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 [His manner of criticising and commending Addi5 ' son's prose was the same in conversation as we... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 546 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... | |
 | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren - 1833 - 560 strani
...printed upon a superfine woes paper, with plates of medals, 4 vols. foolscap 8vo. cloth boards, \l. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant bnt it ostentatious, mnst give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."— Dr. JoknA HISTORICAL... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 strani
...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... | |
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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. 
