...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dilligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of ADDISON. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS; BARON OF EVESHAM. Mr LORD,...

...amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. " BLACKMORE. SIR RICHARD BLACK MORE was the son of Robert Blackmore,...

...amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison *." The public has in a great measure sanctioned the opinions of these...

...amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison *." The public has in a great measure sanctioned the opinions of these...

...language retains itspurity, or any authors, who have written in it, continue to be read. In short, whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentutiotm, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. But, last of all, let us view...

...merits of this celebrated author, as well as to remark * " 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." " Life of Addison." t I allude to such words as Resuscitation, orbity,...

...roughness, ;, that jt3 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,...

...acquired from the attempt. ' Whoever wishes (says Johnson) to attain an English style, familiar and not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' Such a style is, on the whole, the most useful, perhaps the most...

...success. J know that he " gave his days and nights to Addison," and it was by this that he attained an English style " familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious." * About the year 1778 he printed a Letter to Dr. Blair " On the Improvement of Psalmody in Scotland."...

...lavished the honours of literary applause more liberally than on you ? Have I not said, that " who" ever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but "...must " give his days and his nights to the volumes of Ad" dison ?" ADDISON. You have indeed bestowed on me greater praise than I deserve. But I can hardly...