 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 576 pages
...appreciated as long as the language in which they are composed. " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Mr. Taiboys of Oxford, from whose press many works of standard authors have issued, may vie... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V [His manner of criticising and commending Addi5 ' son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...thcdiscriminatioiHo be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addi'"" "'" son's prose was the same in... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addip' 8 ' son's prose was the same in... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 548 pages
...idiomatic flow of language ilcel, si , whicn amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, mu .1 give his days and nights to the volich Pope ly upon the , a unies of Addison. *J ADELARD, or... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 548 pages
...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 but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...; yet he would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not iniposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison 2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was p.^' the same in conversation... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - English imprints - 1834 - 1082 pages
...vols, with portrait, 3/. 12s. Large Paper, 5Í. 8s. Dr. Johnson observed of Addison. ' Whorter wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' — The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, and Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c.... | |
 | William Gray - English literature - 1835 - 124 pages
...superfine wove paper, with plates of medals, 4 vols. foolscap Svo. cloth boards, \l. "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Dr. Johnson, rpHE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF SIR PHILIP *- SIDNEY ; with a Life of the Author,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...trouble ; yet be would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not imposattain Addison2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was the same in conversation as... | |
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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... 
