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

...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,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." " Life of Addison." t I allude to such words as Resuscitation, orbity, fatuity, divaricate, asinine,...

...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 elegant, if it be true, as the criticks...

...celebrated author, as well as to remark * " Whoever wishes to acquire a style which is familiar but hot coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." " Life of Addison." f I allude to such words as Resuscitation, orbity, fatuity, divaricate, asinine,...

...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...

...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,...

...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."...

...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 1 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."* Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 17>52, I shall, under this year, say all that I...

...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 "...elegant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and his nights to the volumes of Ad" dison ?" ADDISON. You have indeed bestowed on me greater praise than...

...unmarried, in 17;)7. Dr. Johnson, after drawing his character in a forcible and elegant manner, says, " whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days ami nights to the volumes of Addison." — .#%• Brit. AJdimiMas, S voll. 18O3. ADI: LARD, a monk...