 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
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...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. IV. — Pleasure and Pain, — SPEcTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginningof the... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...ponderosity of the third. What Johnson said of Addison's style, may be more properly applied to Mr. Hall's, " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." An eminent critic of the present day, speakingofoneofMr. Hall's sermons, says, " The diction displays... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 pages
... 600079048Y fl ADDISON'S WORKS. VOLUME THE SECOND. WHOEVER WISHES TO ATTAIN AN ENGLISH STYLE, FAMILIAR...GIVE HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS TO THE VOLUMES OF ADDISON. DR. JOHNSON. THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. II. . OXFORD, ;/~ --•'A... | |
 | Homer - 1831 - 154 pages
...beautifully printed to match in size the various editions of the British Essayists, in royal 18mo. I/. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — DR. JoHNSON. '['HE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, including sixteen Letters never before... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 pages
...dulcet, graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ADELARD, or ATHELARD, an English Benedictine monk, who lived under the reign of Henry I. Already possessed... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...thcdiscriminatioiHo be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addi'"" "'" son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V Piozzi, [His manner of criticising and commending Addip' 8 ' son's prose was the same in conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...discrimination to be just. Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison's Spectators into Latin, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison V [His manner of criticising and commending Addi5 ' son's prose was the same in conversation as we... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...; yet he would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not iniposattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison 2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was p.^' the same in conversation as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. Hie sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, яауя Dr. Warum, he sometime* is to ; and in another MS. note he adds, often 10.— C. HUGHES.... | |
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