 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1846 - 296 pages
...Works of Joseph Addison. Including " The Spectator" entire. 3 vols. 8vo. Portrait. Sheep extra. $5 50. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — Dr. Johnson, XXXIV. DRAPER ON THE ORGANIZATION OF PLANTS. A Treatise on the Forces which produce... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
..., yet he would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not uiiposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...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 in conversation as... | |
 | 384 pages
...in these words: "Whoever wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant hut not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison". For elegance and majesty combined — for splendour and taste — for dignified and polished writing,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...amplitude, nor affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.4 d unfavourable notion of him, founded on his supposed...that instead of speaking of him with that respect 5 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall, under this year, say all that I... | |
 | David Creamer - Hymns - 1848 - 488 pages
...heads this article. Dr. Johnson assigns to him the highest place among prose writers, when he says, " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." None will dispute this high praise ; while all must regret that his treatise on the " Christian Religion... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though 40 not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — Dr. Johnson. EXERCISE XXXI. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. THE curfew tolls the knell... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though 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 tolls the knell... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...to be what we are, than affect to be what we are not." 13. " Whoever teaches must analyze." ^ 14. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." 15. "What is affected, can never be truly genteel." 16. " What we deem adversities, may, in reality,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1923 - 1004 pages
...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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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 energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... 
