...energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently...and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen of London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire, was...

...energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently...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, was...

...energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently...English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant butnot ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."y Though the Rambler...

...energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. LIFE OF POPE, Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good sense,...

...sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not dili\ gently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain...and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen of London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire, was...

...energetickP; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently...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,...

...As. a model of English prose, his writings merit the greatest praise. " Whoever," says Dt. Johnson, " wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." AKENSIDE, Mark, — an English poet and physician, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1721. His father...

...energetic : he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity. His periods, though not diligently...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.' " This is the ' middle style' for which Addison...

...energetickp; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently...are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an I^nglish style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights...

...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...