...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...

...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...

...he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he tomitimes...

...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...

...he is never rapid, and he neyer stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families, which from the beginning of the world, were as opposite to each other as light...

...is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...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,...

...is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...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,...

...is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...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,...

...he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude noraffected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familur but noi coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes...

...is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded,...voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English styk, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, mnst give his days and nights to the...