| William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor afiected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. — SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the begirtningof the... | |
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...diligently rounded, are voluble 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 of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. — SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginningof the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 428 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. J OHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 304 pages
...he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connexions, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great poet! shall thy sacred lays Provoke our wonder,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. VI... | |
| William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 442 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 446 pages
...Anglicism^ What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick*; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another JMS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. vi... | |
| William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; hi' is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exnggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
| William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...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;... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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... | |
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