...printed upon a superfine wove paper, with plates of medals, 4 vols. foolscap Svo. cloth boards, \l. "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." — Dr. Johnson, rpHE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF SIR PHILIP *- SIDNEY ; with a Life of the Author, and...

...trouble ; yet be would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not imposattain Addison2." [His manner of criticising and commending Addison's prose was the same in conversation as...

...amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.(i) Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must (1) When Johnson showed me a proof sheet of the character of Addison, in which he so highly extols...

...stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods, thougn nt, and a wider acquaintance with the world, soon...astonishment, as of many other prejudices and errors. * But, Bars Dr. Wanon, he sometimci u so ; and la anolber MS. note he adds, often so.— C. HUGHES....

...as to his literary merit, we do not differ widely, if any, from Dr. Johnson. " Whoever," says he, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." We have alluded to the licentiousness and obscurity of such dramatic authors of old, as Aristophanes...

...Addison received his entire approbation : — " Whoever wishes to » Vol. ii., page 581, Life of Akennd*. attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Of the Spectator he used to say, with the exception of Mr. Addison's papers and some others, it contained...

...he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded,...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addition. * But, says Dr. Wnrton, he somtthnet U an j and ip another MS. note he adds, often so.—...

...he lavishes the honours of literary applause, with a liberality which far transcends all praise. " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar,...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,...

...invention." As for Addison's prose, Johnson considered it "the model of the middle style," and concluded that "whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Addison mediated between town and country, between landed gentry and prosperous citizen, even— to...

...follow Cobbett here. "At the end of his Life of Addison, Dr. Johnson observes that "Whoever wishes i0 attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." Number 41 1. "There are, indeed, but very few, who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish...