 | Timothy Mather Cooley - 1837 - Страниц: 358
...Addison received his entire approbation : — " Whoever wishes to » Vol. ii., page 581, Life of Akennd*. attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Of the Spectator he used to say, with the exception of Mr. Addison's papers and some others, it contained... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - Страниц: 716
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addition. * But, says Dr. Wnrton, he somtthnet U an j and ip another MS. note he adds, often so.—... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - Страниц: 536
...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." With all deference to the Doctor, who, by the formal cut of his own sentence just quoted, shows, that... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - Страниц: 572
...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." With all deference to the Doctor, who, by the formal cut of his own sentence just quoted, shows, that... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - Страниц: 566
...writing. It is the language of the great Johnson, that, ' whoever wishes to acquire a style, which is familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' Young, to great diversity of thought, added an affluent magnificence of language. Pope scattered over... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - Страниц: 522
...affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes tu attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, mid of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1841 - Страниц: 208
...has given his unreserved commendation, to the Style of Mr. Addison, in the following words : — " Whoever wishes to attain an English Style familiar,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Dr. Knox, in his beautiful and valuable Literary and Moral Essays, says, " Addison, like Socrates,... | |
 | 1923 - Страниц: 1004
...he publishes his history of the present age.' He has a great admiration for Addison's writings : ' Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Страниц: 696
...he lavishes the honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and his nights to the volumes of Addison." Of those poets who rank in the highest class after Spenser,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Страниц: 336
...invention." As for Addison's prose, Johnson considered it "the model of the middle style," and concluded that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...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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What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... 
