 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1839 - 536 pages
...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1839 - 572 pages
...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...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,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1840 - 566 pages
...writing. It is 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1839 - 538 pages
...dulcet, 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 out not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison," ADELARD, or ATHELARD,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 pages
...writings ; following, as he has recorded it, Doctor Johnson's advice, who recommends those " who would attain an English style — familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious — to give their days and nights to the volumes of Addison." But Biiton had other points in its favour,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes tu attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, mid of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family... | |
 | Philip Massinger - English drama - 1840 - 590 pages
...rouyhneu, that its characteristic excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever/ 1 Pays Johnson, "wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not o>ientatioiiii, inoM give his days and nights to the volumes of Addieon." Whoever would add to tlieae... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...he lavishes the honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...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,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...invention." As for Addison's prose, Johnson considered it "the model of the middle style," and concluded that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Addison mediated between town and country, between landed gentry and prosperous citizen,... | |
 | William Cobbett - English language - 1983 - 202 pages
...follow Cobbett here. "At the end of his Life of Addison, Dr. Johnson observes that "Whoever wishes i0 attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Number 41 1. "There are, indeed, but very few, who know how to be idle and innocent, or have... | |
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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... 
