 | 1857 - 574 pagina’s
...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."' Many eloquent tributes have been paid to the memory of Addison. In poetry the Elegy of Tickell is the... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pagina’s
...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. DE JOHNSON. 7. CHARACTER OF JAMES WATT. WATT has been called the great Improver of the steam-engine,... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1857 - 320 pagina’s
...of Addison, ' 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 Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, and Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in 1701,... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pagina’s
...Johnson remarks, " 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." 1. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a... | |
 | 1858 - 402 pagina’s
...Johnson, that, " whoever wishes to acquire a style, which is familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Young, to a great diversity of thought, added an affluent magnificence of language. I'opc scattered... | |
 | Francis Fulford - 1859 - 120 pagina’s
...Addison he says : " Whoever wishes to acquire a style which is familiar but not " coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and " nights to the volumes of Addison." It has been surmised that after Johnson had written his Dictionary, he introduced such a number of... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 pagina’s
...Addison he says : " Whoever wishes to acquire a style which is familiar but not " coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and " nights to the volumes of Addison." It has been surmised that after Johnson had written his Dictionary, he introduced such a number of... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 pagina’s
...writings : ' 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.' This remarkable book has afforded me great joy. One sultry evening, when revelling in its pages, I... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pagina’s
...concluded 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." Addison mediated between town and country, between landed gentry and prosperous citizen, even— to... | |
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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. 
