...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.(i) Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must (1) When Johnson showed me a proof sheet of the character of Addison, in which he so highly extols...

...as to his literary merit, we do not differ widely, if any, from Dr. Johnson. " Whoever," says he, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." We have alluded to the licentiousness and obscurity of such dramatic authors of old, as Aristophanes...

...Addison received his entire approbation : — " Whoever wishes to » Vol. ii., page 581, Life of Akennd*. attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Of the Spectator he used to say, with the exception of Mr. Addison's papers and some others,...

...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." With all deference to the Doctor, who, by the formal cut of his own sentence just quoted,...

...for imitation. Dr. Johnson tells us, in one of those oracular passages somewhat threadbare now, that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." With all deference to the Doctor, who, by the formal cut of his own sentence just quoted,...

...writing. It is the language of the great Johnson, that, ' whoever wishes to acquire a style, which is familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' Young, to great diversity of thought, added an affluent magnificence of language. Pope scattered...

...dulcet, graceful, idiomatic flow of language, which amply justifies the eulogium of Johnson, that " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant out not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison," ADELARD, or ATHELARD,...

...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,...

...invention." As for Addison's prose, Johnson considered it "the model of the middle style," and concluded that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Addison mediated between town and country, between landed gentry and prosperous citizen,...

...follow Cobbett here. "At the end of his Life of Addison, Dr. Johnson observes that "Whoever wishes i0 attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Number 41 1. "There are, indeed, but very few, who know how to be idle and innocent, or have...