 | John Aikin - 1799 - 790 pages
...few will call in question. " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Life of Addison, in the English Poets) " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The fafts in the preceding account are taken from the Biographia Britannica. — A. ADELAKD, a Benedictine... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 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 coarse, and * [When Johnson shewed me a proof-sheet of. the character of Addison, in which he so highly extols... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...intellectual wealth," might he justly affixed as a motto to the volumes of Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled to study the pages... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...intellectual wealth," might be justly affixed as a motto to the volumes of Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled to study the pages... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...justly affixed as a motto to the volumes of Burke. V1U ADVERTISEMENT. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled to study the pages... | |
 | James Hardie - Biography - 1801 - 530 pages
...language retains its purity, or any authors, who have written in it, continue to be read. In short, whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar-,...coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give liis days and nights to the volumes of Addison. As a man, it is impossible to say too much, and it... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dilligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS; BARON OF EVESHAM. tir LOSD, I SHOULD not act the part of an... | |
 | James Beattie - 1803 - 240 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...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 *." The public has in a great measure sanctioned the opinions of these truly learned and discerning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...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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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. 
