 | David Irving - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted he performed : he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy."* ' . : Dryden, Pope, and Atterbury, are reckoned among the number of graceful writers ; and to these... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...he performed ; he is never J,ceble, and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. l •Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...characteristic and just : " 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...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy." It is, however, the colloquial tone, fusing these qualities into an harmonious whole, that renders... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...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...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.i .Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 1570
...unmarried, in 1797. Dr. Johnson, after drawing his character in a forcible and elegant manner says, " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give hia days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Hing. Jirit. Johnson's Poets. ADELARD, a monk of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...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...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great poet! shall thy sacred lays Provoke our wonder,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...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...coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give bis days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUBNEY.] • style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall under this year, say... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...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...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... | |
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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. 
