 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 poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes tu attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, mid of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...literature what it is. As a prose writer, he to this day continues to deserve Johnson's eulogium : — " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Somewhat dissipated in his earlier life, he has left, in his "Defense of the Christian Religion," ample... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1841 - 208 pages
...has given his unreserved commendation, to the Style of Mr. Addison, in the following words : — " Whoever wishes to attain an English Style familiar,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Dr. Knox, in his beautiful and valuable Literary and Moral Essays, says, " Addison, like Socrates,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed : he is never feeble, and he aid ntity, and in his earlier years without deliC3cv of...changed his hours, and rested in bed from nine to four * But, «ays Dr. Warton, he tometimet U «о ; »nd in another MS. note he addn, often во. — С«... | |
 | 1842 - 602 pages
...model, in favour of which we shall conclude by quoting what Dr. Johnson himself says in its favour : « Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...days and nights to the volumes of Addison. » THE COST OF A REPUTATlON. A PARABLE. «No, no, the post-chaise is at the door; — it is too late, » cried... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...of his playful manner, and of some of the graces of his style. Of that style Dr. Johnson writes—" Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." He attained the most ornamental degree of the simple style of writing, united with purity and perspicuity;... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1843 - 410 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." We have introduced these somewhat long passages from Johnson,because it is impossible better to describe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor aflbctcd 8 ruJ Ԣ R˪ %t j" 2W ◵ @9 L E \ [z :zv: 5 B ... =.H Q> Md !Z J ܑ U 3mC ㎑ l s t • But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes U «о ; and in another MS. note he adds, often so.— C. HUGHES.... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1845 - 374 pages
...imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." With all deference to the great critic, who, by the formal cut of the sentence just quoted, shows,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1845 - 662 pages
...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." With all deference to the great critic, who, by the formal cut of the sentence just quoted, shows that... | |
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