For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries. To read the best authors, observe the best speakers : and much exercise of his own style. In style to consider, what ought to be written; and after what manner. He must first think and excogitate... Ben Jonson - Page 446by Ben Jonson - 1925Full view - About this book
| 1829 - 696 pages
...can write well without having read much. Let us attend to Ben Jonson's remarks on this subject. — " For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best books, observe the best speakers, and much exercise his own style. In style, to consider... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...student. K 2 " For a man to write well," he observes, " there are required three necessaries. To read the best authors ; observe the best speakers ; and much exercise of his own style. In style to consider, what ought to be written ; and after what manner; he must first think,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pages
...every student. " For a man to write well," he observes, " there are required three necessaries. To read the best authors ; observe the best speakers ; and much exercise of his own style. In style to consider, what ought to be written ; and after what manner; he must first think,... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...if to break, were better than to open; or to rent asunder, gentler than to loose. * * * * F. e 2 • For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries.— To read the best authors; observe the best speakers ; and much exercise of his own style. In style, to... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...if to break, were better than to open ; or to rent asunder, gentler than to loose. * * * * •? e2 For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries.— To read the best authors; observe the best speakers ; and much exercise of his own style. In style, to... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...as if to break, were better than to open ; or to rent asunder, gentler than to loose. * * * * E e3 For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries.— To read the best authors; observe the best speakers ; and much exercise of his own style. In style, to... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...the menace of them ; for it is both deformed and servile. De stylo, et optima scribendi genere. — For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries : to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. In style to consider... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...who as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate. Essay t, or Counsels, Civil and Moral. JONSON. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries ; to read the best authors ; observe the best speakers ; and much exercise of his own style. In style to.considt.r... | |
| 1829 - 576 pages
...from so fortuitous a rin um. stance. — La Belle Assemhlíe. Requisites for a Man to write tvell. — For a man to write well there are required three necessaries — to read the hest hooks, ohserve the hest speakers, and much exercise his own style. In style, to consider... | |
| Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 448 pages
...composition he laid down for himself; the second is interesting as a criticism on his great rival. " For a man to write well, there are required three...observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. In style to consider what ought to be written, and after what manner; he must first think... | |
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