...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Though the Rambler was not concluded till the year 1759, I shall, under .this year, say all that I...

...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of AddisoH. IV. — Pleatwre and Pain.— SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginning...

...affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes1 to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. ' l Thii life, which appeared in the preceding edition of this Dietionary, \i an abi al guuut of that...

...declaring : " whoever " wishes to attain an English style, " familiar but not coarse, and ele" gant but not ostentatious, must " give his days and nights to the " volumes of Addison !" When by orders from the Court of Directors, it was proposed in 1796 to establish an academy at Calcutta,...

...when he observed, that he who would do this thing without that, and that thing without the other, " must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." THE AMERICAN USUBER. A few miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several miles...

...quote the words of one, whose authority few will call in question "Whoever," says Dr. Johnson, (Life of Addison, in the English Poets) •'" wishes to attain...his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The papers in the Spectator, claimed for , are in number two hundred and se« venty-four. About two hundred...

...a striking instance recorded, in the life of that great genius, of whom Dr. Johnson says, " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." The instance referred to is recorded in Mr. Exley's Encyclopaedia, under the article, Addison, and is as...

...amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English 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, he tomitimes...

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

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