...His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning of the world, were as...

...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'...

...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, are willing to bestow this labour, or anxious to obtain the reward, is sufficiently...

...in his transitions and connexions, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. LIFE OF POPE, Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good sense,...

...sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen of London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,...

...As. a model of English prose, his writings merit the greatest praise. " Whoever," says Dt. Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." AKENSIDE, Mark, — an English poet and physician, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1721. His father...

...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an I^nglish style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. i' I 'mi. says Dr. Warton, he som«tiinei is so; and, in another manuscript note, he adds, often so....

...energetic;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither stndied amplitnde nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES. JOHN II re in •s, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family...

...observing, that it had not been his own model, as no two styles could differ more from each other. — "Sir, to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V * Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall, under this year, say all that...

...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy, -f Whoever wishes to attain an Knglish 1827 , -@!s Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752,1 shall, under this year, say ail that I have...