...energetick; he is pever rapid, and" he never stagnates. His sentences. have neither studied amplitude, por affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;...

...lost something of its genuine Anglicism. He is never feeble ; and he did not wish to be energetic: he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English Style, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." ' This is the Middle Style, for which Addison...

...His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though notdiligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning of the world, were as...

...idiomatical, it might have lost somewhatof its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; tie is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick...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,...

...of his style, as given by Johnson himself: " What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble j and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never...English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant butnot ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."y Though the Rambler...

...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetickf; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. f But, says Dr. Warton, he Kmetimet is so ; and, in another manuscript note, he adds, often so. HUGHES....

...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetickp; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. i' But, says Dr. Warton, he fometime$ is so ; and, in another manuscript note, he adds, often so. HUGHES....

...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. LIFE OF POPE, Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good sense,...

...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetickP; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...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,...

...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,...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but...