 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUBNEY.] • style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall under this year, say... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...any classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. BUKNEY.] style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes ofAddison."2 Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I shall under this year, say... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 442 pages
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 446 pages
...;(jet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism^ What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another JMS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. vi... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. VI... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; hi' is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exnggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...energetick; he is pever rapid, and" he never stagnates. His sentences. have neither studied amplitude, por affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 pages
...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'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 pages
...idiomatical, it might have lost somewhatof its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; tie is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick...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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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 have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... 
