 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Počet stránok 426
...lost something of its genuine Anglicism. He is never feeble ; and he did not wish to be energetic: he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English Style, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ' This is the Middle Style, for which Addison... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - Počet stránok 268
...without some variation of their original form. Since Johnson, however, has said " that whoever wished to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison," Addison, has been imitated and refined on, till what was familiar has become vulgar, and what was elegant'... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - Počet stránok 396
...Anglicism. What he attempted he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - Počet stránok 454
...himself: " What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble j and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - Počet stránok 668
...Anglicism. What he attempted,, he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. LIFE OF POPE, Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good sense,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Počet stránok 508
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetickP; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...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,... | |
 | George Canning - 1825 - Počet stránok 312
...lost something of its genuine Anglicism. He is never feeble ; and he did not wish to be energetic : he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' " This is the ' middle style' for which Addison... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Počet stránok 504
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetickp; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - Počet stránok 310
...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...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. His father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Počet stránok 674
...Anglicism./ What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but... | |
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What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... 
