 | 1818 - Počet stránok 762
...declaring : " whoever " wishes to attain an English style, " familiar but not coarse, and ele" gant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and nights to the " volumes of Addison !" When by orders from the Court of Directors, it was proposed in 1796 to establish an academy at Calcutta,... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 604
...Johnson says, " 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." The instance referred to is recorded in Mr. Exley's Encyclopaedia, under the article, Addison, and... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - Počet stránok 370
...English Poets) •'" 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." The papers in the Spectator, claimed for , are in number two hundred and se« venty-four. About two... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 416
...voluble and easy. 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. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - Počet stránok 366
...voluble and easy. 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. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families, which from the beginning of the world, were as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Počet stránok 430
...voluble and easy. 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. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 426
...voluble and easy. 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. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Počet stránok 422
...voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familur but noi coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. — SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginningof the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - Počet stránok 394
...and easy. l •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."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall, under this year, say all... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 304
...voluble and easy. 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. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great poet! shall thy sacred lays Provoke our wonder,... | |
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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. 
