| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 páginas
...his Life in the Britannica, 2il edit. • VOL. I. C 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 412 páginas
...has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiur but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,...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... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style,...but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tbe volumes of Addison." FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD V'ecilia,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style,...but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tue volumes of Addison." II A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...neither studied amplitude, nor afiected brevity ; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but°not ostentatious, roust give bis days and nights to tbe volumes of Addison." A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 páginas
...and he did not wish to be energetic ;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences hjive 'neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ;...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.... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 páginas
...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...and. easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English Style, must give his days and nights to the vo* lumes of Addison.' " This is the middle style, for which Addison... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 páginas
...success. I know that he " gave his days and nights to Addison," and it was by this that he attained an English style " familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious." In his remarks on the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, he has fallen into the same mistake with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 páginas
...is ne^ vcr 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 ncft diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 512 páginas
...; he is never feeble, he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor...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... | |
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