 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 pages
...acquired from the attempt. ' Whoever wishes (says Johnson) to attain an English style, familiar and not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' Such a style is, on the whole, the most useful, perhaps the most elegant, if it be true, as the criticks... | |
 | Henry Kett - Literature - 1805 - 422 pages
...celebrated author, as well as to remark * " Whoever wishes to acquire a style which is familiar but hot coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." " Life of Addison." f I allude to such words as Resuscitation, orbity, fatuity, divaricate, asinine,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 1 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."* Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 17>52, I shall, under this year, say all that I... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...edit. cation of Dr. JOHNSON'S " Lives of the Poets," it has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...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... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...incomparable critic and biographer :— " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." LETTER IX. ORNAMENT AMPLIFICATION. *WY DEAR JOIfJV, THE real ornaments of composition, whether prose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 598 pages
...opinion, beyond Diyden. C. to snatch a grace ; he seeks no amhitious ornaments, and tries no hazardou! innovations. His page is always luminous, but never...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, be sometimes is so ; and in another MS note he add*, often so. C HUGHES THE... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic3 ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...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. TO THE RIGHT... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic 3 ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, be sometimes is so; and in another MS note he adds, often so. C TO THE RIGHT... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so j and in another MS note, he adds, often so. C. HUGHES.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity: bis periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Or. Wart on, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS note he adds, often so. С TO THE RIGHT... | |
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What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... 
