 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUBNEY.] • style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall under this year, say... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 446 pages
...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 have neither...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another JMS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. vi... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...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 have neither...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. VOL. VI... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 442 pages
...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 have neither...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...energetick; he is pever rapid, and" he never stagnates. His sentences. have neither studied amplitude, por affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...its genuine Anglicism. He is never feeble ; and he did not wish to be energetic: he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English Style, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ' This is the Middle Style, for which Addison... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 pages
...without some variation of their original form. Since Johnson, however, has said " that whoever wished to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison," Addison, has been imitated and refined on, till what was familiar has become vulgar, and what was elegant'... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...publication of Dr. Johnson's " Lives of the Poets," it has become almost proverbial to repeat, 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." That few, however,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 pages
...attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble j and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither...English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant butnot ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."y Though the Rambler... | |
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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. 
