 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Страниц: 378
...ncft diligently rounded, are 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. ' But, says Di-. AYarton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note he adds., often sn. r. HUGHES.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Страниц: 380
...not diligently rounded, are 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. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note he adds, often so. C. HUGHES.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - Страниц: 510
...not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wisbei 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. ' l This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dictionary, Is an abridgment of that... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - Страниц: 512
...not diligently rounded, are 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. ' ' This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of tbis Dictionary, K sn abridgment of lhat... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - Страниц: 546
...sweetness beyond example. " Whoever,1' says Johnson, " 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.'' Whoever would add to these the qualities of simplicity, purity, sweetness, and strength, must devote... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - Страниц: 542
...of them," &c. Warton too calls Coxeter a faithful and industrious amasser of our old English litebut not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Whoever would add to these the qualities of simplicity, purity, sweetness, and strength, must devote... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - Страниц: 424
...not diligently rounded, are 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. IV. — Pleasure and Pain,— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning of the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - Страниц: 660
...liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and his nights to the volumes of Addison." Of those poets who rank in the highest class after Spenser,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Страниц: 504
...not diligently rounded, are 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. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is S9 ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. O- •'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - Страниц: 466
...not diligently rounded, are 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." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1759, I shall, under .this year, say all that I... | |
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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... 
