...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' ' This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of tbis Dictionary,...

...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wisbei to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' l This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dictionary,...

...roughness, that its characteristic excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever,1' says Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.'' Whoever would add to these the qualities of simplicity, purity,...

...roughness, that its characteristick excellence is a sweetness beyond. example. " Whoever," says Johnson, « wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant time, taken up by Thomas Coxeter, of whom I know nothing more than is delivered by Mr. Egerton Brydges,...

...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain,— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families,...

...lavishes the honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not...must give his days and his nights to the volumes of Addison." Of those poets who rank in the highest class after Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, Dryden...

...amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is S9 ; and in another MS. note,...

...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1759, I shall,...

...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes1 to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' l Thii life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dietionary,...

...a striking instance recorded, in the life of that great genius, of whom Dr. Johnson says, " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The instance referred to is recorded in Mr. Exley's Encyclopaedia,...