 What he 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 studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are...  Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Seite 111von Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 432 Seiten
...merits of this celebrated author, as well as to remark * " Whoever wishes to acquire a style which is familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." " Life of Addison." t I allude to such words as Resuscitation, orbity, fatuity, divaricate, asinine,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 Seiten
...acquired from the attempt. ' Whoever wishes (says Johnson) to attain an English style, familiar and not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' Such a style is, on the whole, the most useful, perhaps the most elegant, if it be true, as the criticks... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 422 Seiten
...celebrated author, as well as to remark * " Whoever wishes to acquire a style which is familiar but hot coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." " Life of Addison." f I allude to such words as Resuscitation, orbity, fatuity, divaricate, asinine,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 1 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."* Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 17>52, I shall, under this year, say all that I... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 Seiten
...edit. cation of Dr. JOHNSON'S " Lives of the Poets," it 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... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 Seiten
...incomparable critic and biographer :— " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." LETTER IX. ORNAMENT AMPLIFICATION. *WY DEAR JOIfJV, THE real ornaments of composition, whether prose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 Seiten
...in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, be sometimes is so ; and in another MS note he add*, often so. C HUGHES THE... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 Seiten
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic3 ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...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. TO THE RIGHT... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 Seiten
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic 3 ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, be sometimes is so; and in another MS note he adds, often so. C TO THE RIGHT... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 Seiten
...Anglicism. What he 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...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so j and in another MS note, he adds, often so. C. HUGHES.... | |
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