 | 680 стор.
...writings ; following, as he has recorded it, Doctor Johnson's advice, who recommends those " who would attain an English style — familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious — to give their days and nights to the volumes of Addison." But Bilton had other points in its favour,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 стор.
...give the intellect no trouble ; yet he Whoever Aetat.41.] BoswelVs projected works. 261 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison1.' Though The Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall, under this... | |
 | John Aikin - 1799 - 790 стор.
...will call in question. " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Life of Addison, in the English Poets) " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The fafts in the preceding account are taken from the Biographia Britannica. —... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 стор.
...familiar, and elegant, to an Englishman, as to give the intellect no trouble ; yet he Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison'.' Though The Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall, under this... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 стор.
...into anyclassical or European language, as easily as if it had been originallyconceived in it, B.] • elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."1 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, . I' shall, under this... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 стор.
...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 but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 стор.
...might be justly aflixed as a motto to the volumes ot Burke. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 стор.
...as a motto to the volumes of Burke. Vlll ADVERTISEMENT. Dr. Johnson has said, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He who has this object in view, may surely, with equal propriety, be counselled... | |
 | 1803 - 420 стор.
...affected brevity : his periods, though not dilligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON. TO i . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS; BARON OF EVESHAM. itr LOUD, I SHOULD... | |
 | 1803 - 434 стор.
...affected brevity : his periods, though not dilligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS; BARON OF EVESHAM. Mr LORD, I SHOULD... | |
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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... 
