| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded,...but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, mut give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. • But, so ys Dr. Warton, be sometimes is... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 pages
...his Life in the Britannica, 2il edit. • VOL. I. C has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON." That few, however, are willing to bestow this labour, or anxious to obtain the reward, is... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style,...but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tbe volumes of Addison." FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD V'ecilia,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style,...but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tue volumes of Addison." II A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 412 pages
...has become almost proverbial to repeat, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiur but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON." That few, however, are willing to bestow this labour, or anxious to obtain the reward, is... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...neither studied amplitude, nor afiected brevity ; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but°not ostentatious, roust give bis days and nights to tbe volumes of Addison." A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences hjive 'neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...ostentatious, must 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.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though ncft diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' But, says Di-. AYarton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note he adds., often sn.... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 pages
...is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity. His periods, though not diligently rounded,...and. easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English Style, must give his days and nights to the vo* lumes of Addison.' " This is the middle style, for which Addison... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 pages
...success. I know that he " gave his days and nights to Addison," and it was by this that he attained an English style " familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious." In his remarks on the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, he has fallen into the same mistake with... | |
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