 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...voluble and easy. 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. — Johnson. Under these Seven Principles, viewed in connection with the theory of Emphasis, may he... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 918 pages
...Dr. Johnson ! — " Whoever would attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ADELAIDE, MADAMR, aunt to Louii XVI. of France. This princess, In order to avoid the sanguinary fuiy... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...Johnson said — "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 present edition inclndes the whole of Bishop Hurd's edition, and several additions ; among them... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1854 - 540 pages
...Johnson, that " 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." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign of Henry I. Already possessed... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1856 - 754 pages
...threadbare now, that "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." With all deference to the great critic, who, by the formal cut of the sentence just quoted, shows that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...voluble and easy. 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. For a fuller account, see Johnson's laves of the Poets. 644. By attic taste is meant such as was worthy... | |
 | George S. Measom - Arab countries - 1856 - 266 pages
...is pleasing. 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 " Vision of Mirza," which is an excellent specimen of the author's style, is the 159th paper of... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Brazil - 1856 - 468 pages
...to its value. " Whoever wishes to attain in English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Dr. Johnson. " Never had the English language been written with such sweetness, grace, and facility.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 480 pages
...writings." — Ibid. *' 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." — Dr. Johnson. " It was not till three generations had laughed and wept over the pages of Addison... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 pages
...affirms that " 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." With the exception of our own Irving, whose style is, to my taste, even more pleasing, I know of no... | |
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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. 
