 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...amplitude, nor affected 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 his days and nights to tue volumes of Addison." II A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...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 - 378 pages
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though ncft diligently 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. ' But, says Di-. AYarton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note he adds., often sn. r. HUGHES.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently 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. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note he adds, often so. C. HUGHES.... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - Poets, Scottish - 1811 - 308 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 512 pages
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently 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. ' ' This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of tbis Dictionary, K sn abridgment of lhat... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 510 pages
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wisbei to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' l This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dictionary, Is an abridgment of that... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 pages
...roughness, that its characteristic excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever,1' says Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.'' Whoever would add to these the qualities of simplicity, purity, sweetness, and strength, must devote... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 542 pages
...roughness, that its characteristick excellence is a sweetness beyond. example. " Whoever," says Johnson, « wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant time, taken up by Thomas Coxeter, of whom I know nothing more than is delivered by Mr. Egerton Brydges,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently 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. IV. — Pleasure and Pain,— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning of the... | |
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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... 
