 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 páginas
...he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.1 Whoever wishes to attain an English 1 [When Johnson shewed me a proof-sheet of the character... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 páginas
...is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; hi' is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exnggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 páginas
...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...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. VI... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 páginas
...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...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another JMS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. vi... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 páginas
...energetick; he is pever rapid, and" he never stagnates. His sentences. have neither studied amplitude, por affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 426 páginas
...He is never feeble ; and he did not wish to be energetic: he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English Style, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ' This is the Middle Style, for which Addison... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 páginas
...without some variation of their original form. Since Johnson, however, has said " that whoever wished to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison," Addison, has been imitated and refined on, till what was familiar has become vulgar, and what was elegant'... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 páginas
...publication of Dr. Johnson's " Lives of the Poets," it has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant out not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." That few, however,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 páginas
...is never feeble j and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor...English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant butnot ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."y Though the Rambler... | |
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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. 
