...nor affected brevity; his periods, tho' not diligently rounded, are valuable and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, roust give his days and nights to tbe volumes of Addison." FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, AT OXFORD V'ecilia,...

...affected brevity ; his periods, though ncft diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' But, says Di-. AYarton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note he adds., often sn. r. HUGHES....

...affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...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. HUGHES....

...success. I 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." In his remarks on the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, he has fallen into the same mistake with...

...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' ' This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of tbis Dictionary, K sn abridgment of lhat...

...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wisbei to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' l This life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dictionary, Is an abridgment of that...

...that its characteristic excellence is a sweetness beyond example. " Whoever,1' says Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.'' Whoever would add to these the qualities of simplicity, purity, sweetness, and strength, must devote...

...of them," &c. Warton too calls Coxeter a faithful and industrious amasser of our old English litebut not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Whoever would add to these the qualities of simplicity, purity, sweetness, and strength, must devote...

...affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain,— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning of the...

...the honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse,...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,...