 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 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. IV. — Pleasure and Pain,— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning of the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...he lavishes the honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and his nights to the volumes of Addison." Of those poets who rank in the highest class after Spenser,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 504 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 S9 ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. O- •'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...himself : " What he attempted, lie performed ; he ie never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1759, I shall, under .this year, say all that I have to observe upon it. Some of the translations of... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...Anglicism. Wliat 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...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of AddisoH. IV. — Pleatwre and Pain.— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...give 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... | |
 | 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...give 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 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. 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 - 426 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, 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... 
