 | 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,...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'... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 pages
...will call in question, " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Life of Addison, in the English Poets) " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The papers in the Spectator, claimed for AJHJISo*, are in number two hundred and seventy-four. About... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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. VOL. VI... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 446 pages
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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. C. VOL. vi... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 442 pages
...affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...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, are willing to bestow this labour, or anxious to obtain the reward, is sufficiently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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 in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...model of English prose, his writings merit the greatest praise. " Whoever," says Dt. Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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,... | |
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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... 
