 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 pages
...and a dulcet, graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style,...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... | |
 | Homer - 1831 - 154 pages
...beautifully printed to match in size the various editions of the British Essayists, in royal 18mo. I/. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — DR. JoHNSON. '['HE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, including sixteen Letters never before... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...thcdiscriminatioiHo be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addi'"" "'" son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V [His manner of criticising and commending Addi5 ' son's prose was the same in conversation as we... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addip' 8 ' son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 548 pages
...dulcet, graceful, idiomatic flow of language ilcel, si , whicn amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, mu .1 give his days and nights to the volich Pope ly upon the , a unies of Addison. *J ADELARD, or... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 548 pages
...and a dulcet, graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...; yet he would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not iniposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison 2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was p.^' the same in conversation as... | |
 | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren - Africa - 1833 - 560 pages
...printed upon a superfine woes paper, with plates of medals, 4 vols. foolscap 8vo. cloth boards, \l. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant bnt it ostentatious, mnst give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."— Dr. JoknA HISTORICAL... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - English imprints - 1834 - 1082 pages
...Svo. 6 vols, with portrait, 3/. 12s. Large Paper, 5Í. 8s. Dr. Johnson observed of Addison. ' Whorter wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...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 1701,1702,... | |
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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... 
