 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...another language extremely difficult, if not uiiposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V [His manner of criticising and ^^ commending Addison's prose was pY\i the same... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...Portrait. Sheep extra. 85 50. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar oil*; not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addisoa. — Dr. Johnson. xxxm. SPARKS'S AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Library of American Biography.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...rounded, are voluble and easy.4 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and which were so discordant to his own, that instead of speaking of hi volumes of Addison." 5 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall, under this... | |
 | David Creamer - Hymns - 1848 - 488 pages
...writers, when he says, " 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." None will dispute this high praise ; while all must regret that his treatise on... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...rounded, are 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. — Dr. Johnson. EXERCISE XXXI. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. THE curfew... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...rounded, are 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 Addiso Perhaps it is not too much to say, that higher praise than this can be bestowed upon... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...teaches must analyze." ^ 14. " 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." 15. "What is affected, can never be truly genteel." 16. " What we deem adversities,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...1719. Dr. Johnson says : — "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." t The seat of sense and perception. Sensoriola is the diminutive plural of the... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...rounded, are 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 918 pages
...emphatic words of 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... | |
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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. 
