 | Homer - 1831 - 154 páginas
...Essayists, in royal 18mo. I/. 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. '['HE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, including sixteen Letters... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 páginas
...try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 páginas
...try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, 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 Addi5 ' son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 páginas
...try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 páginas
...eulogium of Johnson, 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." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign of Henry I.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 576 páginas
...composed. " Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, " 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." Mr. Taiboys of Oxford, from whose press many works of standard authors have issued, may vie... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 páginas
...another language extremely difficult, if not iniposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must 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... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1082 páginas
...Johnson observed of Addison. ' Whorter 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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 páginas
...and nights to the volumes of Addison.'X 1 ) Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752,1 shall, under this year, say all that I have to observe upon it. Some of the translations of the mottos by himself, are admirably done. He acknowledges to have received " elegant translations" of... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 páginas
...foolscap Svo. cloth boards, \l. "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, rpHE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF SIR PHILIP *- SIDNEY ; with a Life of the Author,... | |
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