 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...old woman, as being in any wise out of the common way, a rather remarkable architect. Ruskin. STYLE. GENERALLY speaking an author's style is a faithful...grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Goethe. SYMPATHY WITH MERIT. LASTLY, and chiefly, you must love the creatures to whom you minister,... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 pages
...answered, 'it is better to sleep than to wake to remark the faults of thy brethren.' " IV. Didactic. 1. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful...grand style, you ought to have a grand character. 2. The clouds, which rise with thunder, slake Our thirsty souls with rain ; The hlow moat dreaded falls... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 pages
...answered, ' it is better to sleep than to wake to remark the faults of thy brethren.' " IV. Didactic. 1. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful...and if you would write a grand style, you ought to havo a grand character. 2. The clouds, which rise with thunder, slake Our thirsty souls with rain;... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...understand an author we must first understand his age. Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful...style, let there first be light in your own mind. I have never made a secret of my enmity to parodies and travesties. My only reason for hating them... | |
 | 1884 - 532 pages
...understand an author we must first understand his age. Whatever -you cannot understand, you cannot possess. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful...style, let there first be light in your own mind. I have never made a secret of my enmity to parodies and travesties. My only reason for hating them... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1886 - 432 pages
...shows the isreat poet. A hero has no conscience. The most conbcienUooe person is a quiet looker on. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucia style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style you ought... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...splendors He; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, Wo Sinais climb and know it not. £««(/. GEKERALLY speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of...grand style, you ought to have a grand character. W« have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...Johnson, Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail. Bacon. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful...grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Goethe. Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind ; death and birth are the vesper and the matin... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 pages
...answered, ' it is better to sleep than to wake to remark the faults of thy brethren. ' " 4.-DIDACTIC. 1. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful...let there first be light in your own mind ; and if yon would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. 2. The clouds, which rise with... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. — Macaulay. Generally speaking, nn author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If...grand style, you ought to have a grand character. — fjaethe. Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — fihtnstone.... | |
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Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. 
