 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 280 pages
... ADDISON'S WORKS. VOLUME THE FOURTH. WHOEVER WISHES TO ATTAIN AN ENGLISH STYLE, FAMILIAR BUT NOT COARSE,...ELEGANT BUT NOT OSTENTATIOUS, MUST GIVE HIS DAYS AND MGIITS TO THE VOLUMES OF ADDISON. DR. JOHNSON. THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS or JOSEPH ADDISON. IN FOUR VOLUMES.... | |
 | Homer - 1831 - 154 pages
...printed to match in size the various editions of the British Essayists, in royal 18mo. I/. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — DR. JoHNSON. '['HE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, including sixteen Letters never before... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 pages
...graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 576 pages
...appreciated as long as the language in which they are composed. " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Mr. Taiboys of Oxford, from whose press many works of standard authors have issued, may vie with the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...thcdiscriminatioiHo be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addi'"" "'" son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addip' 8 ' son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V [His manner of criticising and commending Addi5 ' son's prose was the same in conversation as we... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 548 pages
...idiomatic flow of language ilcel, si , whicn amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, mu .1 give his days and nights to the volich Pope ly upon the , a unies of Addison. *J ADELARD, or... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 548 pages
...graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...; yet he would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not iniposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison 2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was p.^' the same in conversation as... | |
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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... 
