 | Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 506 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetickp; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. i' But, says Dr. Warton, he fometime$ is so ; and, in another manuscript note, he adds, often so. HUGHES.... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...Anglicism. 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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetickf; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. f But, says Dr. Warton, he Kmetimet is so ; and, in another manuscript note, he adds, often so. HUGHES.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy P. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addisonq." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, 1 shall, under this year, say all... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy, -f Whoever wishes to attain an Knglish 1827 , -@!s 1752,1 shall, under this year, say ail that I have to observe upon it. Some of the translations of... | |
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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... 
