 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 ページ
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy/ Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant butnot ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."y Though the Rambler... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 ページ
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must 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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 ページ
...amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. LIFE OF POPE, Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 ページ
...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...ostentatious, must 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 ページ
...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an I^nglish style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. i' I 'mi. says Dr. Warton, he som«tiinei is so; and, in another manuscript note, he adds,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 ページ
...amplitude, nor affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 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. . . ' But, says Dr. Warton,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 ページ
...amplitnde nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 ページ
...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 - 442 ページ
...observing, that it had not been his own model, as no two styles could differ more from each other. — "Sir, to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V * Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall, under this year, say... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 ページ
...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy, -f Whoever wishes to attain an Knglish 1827 , -@!s Addison."* Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752,1 shall, under this year, say ail... | |
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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... 
