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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... "
The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences - Página 205
1842
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The minstrel: in two books: with some other poems. To which are now added ...

James Beattie - 1803 - 240 páginas
...lavished the honours of literary applause more liberally than on you ? Have I not said, that " who" ever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but "...elegant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and his nights to the volumes of Ad" dison f" ADDISON. You have indeed bestowed on me greater praise than...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...days and nights to the volumes of Addison *." The public has in a great measure sanctioned the opinions of these truly learned and discerning critics;...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...days and nights to the volumes of Addison *." The public has in a great measure sanctioned the opinions of these truly learned and discerning critics...
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ...

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 páginas
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. " BLACKMORE. SIR RICHARD BLACK MORE was the son of Robert Blackmore, of Corsham in Wiltshire, supposed...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 1

Henry Kett - 1805 - 432 páginas
...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,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 2

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 páginas
...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...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 1

Henry Kett - 1805 - 422 páginas
...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,...
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The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American ..., Volume 1

James Hardie - 1805 - 536 páginas
...language retains itspurity, or any authors, who have written in it, continue to be read. In short, whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentutiotm, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. But, last of all, let us view...
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The Minstrel; Or, The Progress of Genius: With Some Other Poems

James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1805 - 190 páginas
...success. J 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." * About the year 1778 he printed a Letter to Dr. Blair " On the Improvement of Psalmody in Scotland."...
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The Plays of Philip Massinger ...

Philip Massinger - 1805 - 540 páginas
...roughness, ;, that jt3 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,...
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