 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - Počet stránok 378
...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. — Johnson. Under these Seven Principles, viewed in connection with the theory of Emphasis, may he... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - Počet stránok 584
...Johnson said — "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 present edition inclndes the whole of Bishop Hurd's edition, and several additions ; among them... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - Počet stránok 540
...Johnson, that " 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." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign of Henry I. Already possessed... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1856 - Počet stránok 754
...threadbare now, that "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." With all deference to the great critic, who, by the formal cut of the sentence just quoted, shows that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - Počet stránok 464
...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. For a fuller account, see Johnson's laves of the Poets. 644. By attic taste is meant such as was worthy... | |
 | George S. Measom - 1856 - Počet stránok 266
...is pleasing. 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 " Vision of Mirza," which is an excellent specimen of the author's style, is the 159th paper of... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1856 - Počet stránok 468
...to its value. " Whoever wishes to attain in English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Dr. Johnson. " Never had the English language been written with such sweetness, grace, and facility.... | |
 | 1923 - Počet stránok 1004
...writings : ' 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.' This remarkable book has afforded me great joy. One sultry evening, when revelling in its pages, I... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Počet stránok 336
...concluded that "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." Addison mediated between town and country, between landed gentry and prosperous citizen, even— to... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1983 - Počet stránok 202
...observes that "Whoever wishes i0 attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Number 41 1. "There are, indeed, but very few, who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish... | |
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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. 
