 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
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 pages
...Lyly. Books, such as are worthy the name of books, ought to have no patrons but truth and sense. Bacon. 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. Joiison. A good... | |
 | Percival Keane (pseud.) - 1873 - 128 pages
...other." WHAT portions of the body are the best travellers ? — The two wrists. How TO WRITE WELL. — 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. — Jonson. METAPHORICAL... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pages
...menace of them ; for it is both deformed and servile. cxx1v. De stylo, et Optimo scribendi genere. — For a man to / write well, there are required three necessaries : .to, -^ read the best authors, observe the be st qpsalfrq, and much pyprrjgp nf his flwn^style. In style... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...Cf. Ben Jonson's recipe : ' For a man to write weil, there are required three necessaries : to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.' Habitudes, modes or conditions of hav1ng or keeping; relations, customs, frequent intercourse.... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1878 - 522 pages
...and at noon-day will I pray." — Bible. 'For a man to write well there are .... required, to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.' — BEN JONSON. [Here the ordinary noun exercise is awkwardly linked with two verbal nouns,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...than the pencil; for that can speak to the understanding ; the other but to the sense. .ft, p. 754. 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. -ft., p. 75»Words... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...was careful and precise: '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,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 424 pages
...is both deformed and servile. 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...or ferule I would have them free, as from the menace of them ; for it is both deformed and servile. 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 Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...or ferule I would have them free, as from the menace of them ; for it is both deformed and servile. 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... | |
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