 | James Boswell - 1833 - Страниц: 1182
...transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not iniposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must...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... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - Страниц: 1082
...5Í. 8s. Dr. Johnson observed of Addison. ' Whorter 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.' — The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, and Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in 1701,1702,... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - Страниц: 124
...medals, 4 vols. foolscap Svo. cloth boards, \l. "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." — Dr. Johnson, rpHE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF SIR PHILIP *- SIDNEY ; with a Life of the Author, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Страниц: 604
...transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not imposattain an English style, familiar but c Addison2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was the same in conversation as... | |
 | Timothy Mather Cooley - 1837 - Страниц: 370
...— " Whoever wishes to * Vol. U., page 521, Life of Akenside, attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Of the Spectator he used to say, with the exception of Mr. Addison's papers and some others, it contained... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - Страниц: 204
...widely, if any, from Dr. Johnson. " Whoever," says he, " 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." We have alluded to the licentiousness and obscurity of such dramatic authors of old, as Aristophanes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - Страниц: 716
...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 Addition. * But, says Dr. Wnrton, he somtthnet U an j and ip another MS. note he adds, often so.—... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - Страниц: 536
...oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "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." With all deference to the Doctor, who, by the formal cut of his own sentence just quoted, shows, that... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - Страниц: 572
...oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "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." With all deference to the Doctor, who, by the formal cut of his own sentence just quoted, shows, that... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - Страниц: 566
...the language of the great Johnson, that, ' whoever wishes to acquire a style, which is familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' Young, to great diversity of thought, added an affluent magnificence of language. Pope scattered over... | |
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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... 
