 | British poets - 1822 - 304 pages
...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. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great poet! shall thy sacred lays Provoke... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUBNEY.] • style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall under this year, say... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 pages
...any classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUKNEY.] style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall under this year, say... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 298 pages
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give bis days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 pages
...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. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another JMS. note, he adds, often so.... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 pages
...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*." Nothing can be more glaringly exnggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently 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. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning of the world,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pages
...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. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C.... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 pages
...without some variation of their original form. Since Johnson, however, has said " that whoever wished to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...publication of Dr. Johnson's " Lives of the Poets," it has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant out not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." That few, however,... | |
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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... 
