 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 ... - Page 111by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 504 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is S9 ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. O- •'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...the character of his style, as given hy Johnson himself : " What he attempted, lie performed ; he ie never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1759, I shall, under .this year, say all that I... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 516 pages
...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes1 to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' l Thii life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dietionary, \i an abi al guuut of that... | |
 | Asia - 1818 - 762 pages
...declaring : " whoever " wishes to attain an English style, " familiar but not coarse, and ele" gant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and nights to the " volumes of Addison !" When by orders from the Court of Directors, it was proposed in 1796 to establish an academy at Calcutta,... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...when he observed, that he who would do this thing without that, and that thing without the other, " must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." THE AMERICAN USUBER. A few miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several miles... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...there is a striking instance recorded, in the life of that great genius, of whom Dr. Johnson says, " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The instance referred to is recorded in Mr. Exley's Encyclopaedia, under the article, Addison, and is as... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...few will call in question "Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Life of Addison, in the English Poets) •'" wishes to attain an English style, familiar •but...his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The papers in the Spectator, claimed for , are in number two hundred and se« venty-four. About two hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 426 pages
...his transitions and connections, 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, HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 416 pages
...his transitions and connections, 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. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
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