 | 680 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 Bilton had other points in its favour,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1799 - 790 pages
...opinion, however, cannot be maintained with respect to grammatical correctness ; though it may hokVas to the characteristic idiom of the English tongue....his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The fafts in the preceding account are taken from the Biographia Britannica. — A. ADELAKD, a Benedictine... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1799 - 582 pages
...the words of one, whose authority few will call in question. " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Lifeof Addison, in the English Poets) " wishes to attain...his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The faäs in the preceding account are taken from the BiograpAia Britannica. — A. ADELARD, a Benedictine... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...easy, familiar, and elegant, to an Englishman, as to give the intellect no trouble ; yet he Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison'.' Though The Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall, under this year, say all that I have... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...to give the intellect no trouble ; yet he Whoever Aetat.41.] BoswelVs projected works. 261 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison1.' Though The Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall, under this year, say all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...into anyclassical or European language, as easily as if it had been originallyconceived in it, B.] • elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."1 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, . I' shall, under this year, say... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...wealth," might be justly affixed as a motto to the volume* of Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled to study the pages... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...wealth," might be justly aflixed as a motto to the volumes ot Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled to study the pages... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...wealth," might be justly affixed as a motto to the volumes of Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled to study the pages... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dilligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON. TO i . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS; BARON OF EVESHAM. itr LOUD, I SHOULD not act the part... | |
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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... 
