 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...  Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - 111 페이지저자: Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 페이지
...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English stile, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Notes 1 See Swift's letter (VI) to Stella, dated 12 October 1710. 2 Dedication to 'The Drummer', in... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 페이지
...syntactical futurity. Even Johnson's praise displays a tincture of un-Addisonian syntactic suspense: "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Lives of the English Poets, ed. G. Birkbeck Hill, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895), 2.150. Subsequent... | |
 | John Gross - 1998 - 1064 페이지
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 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - 330 페이지
..."middle style" derives from Samuel Johnson, who ends his life of Addison with the following advice: "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison" (Lives of the English Poets [London: JM Dent and Sons, 1954], vol. 1, 368). See as well the analysis... | |
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