...beautifully says of him, " He had read with critical eyes the important volume of Human Life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation." ADDISON' s DEFINITION OF CONTEBSATION. EUSTACE Budgell reports of Addison that he used to say, " There...

...English writers: — " He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of afl'ectation." or to tell exactly from what quarter he is advancing; veteran soldier and skilful marksman...

...we are informed by Steele, that Addison, when he had " made his plan for what he designed to write, would walk about a room, and dictate it into language, with as much freedom and ease as anyone could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." His difficulty...

...Addison was very slow in the process of composition, but the reverse appears to have been the case. " This," says Steele, " was particular in this writer,...write, he would walk about a room, and dictate it in language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence...

...reverse appears to have been the case. " This," says Steele, " was particular in this writer, thiit when he had taken his resolution, or made his plan...write, he would walk about a room, and dictate it in language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence...

...popular impression: "If I remember right, the fifth act was written in less than a week's time ; for ... when he had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he had designed to write, he would walk about the room, and dictate it into language with as much freedom...

...popular impression: "If I remember right, the fifth act was written in less than a week's time ; for ... when he had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he had designed to write, he would walk about the room, and dictate it into language with as much freedom...

...phraseology, he usually wrote easily and rapidly. " When he had taken his resolution," Steele has told us, "or made his plan for what he designed to write, he...and dictate it into language with as much freedom aud ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence aud grammar of what he dictated."...

...English writers : — " He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation." t Dr. Gumming on Instant Duties, p. 386. have been most blessed to you are the thoughts that never...

...time in writing. If I remember right, the Fifth Act was written in less than a week's time ! For this was particular in this Writer, that when he had taken...for what he designed to write ; he would walk about the room and dictate it into Language, with as much freedom and ease as SilR' Si7»:] STEELE OFTEN...