| Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 356 pages
...findeth or acknowledgeth his Wants upon this Head, or in the leaft defireth. to have them fupplied. Proper Words in proper Places, make the true Definition of a Style : But this would require too ample a Difquifition to be now dwelt on. However, I fhall venture to name... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...either finds or acknowledges his wants upon tin* head, or in the least desire to have them supplied. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. But this would require too ample a discussion to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 pages
...either finds or acknowledges his wants •upon this head, or in the least desires to hare them supplied. Proper words, in proper places, make the true definition of a style. But this would require too ample a disquisition to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...either finds or acknowledges his wants upon this head, or in the least desires to have them supplied. Proper words, in proper places, make the true definition of a style. But this would require too ample a disquisition to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name... | |
| 1821 - 506 pages
...punishment : but the righteous into life eternal." Extract from Smß's Leiter to a Young Clergyman. u Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. But this would require too ample a disquisition to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...insinuations, should take from her, her very self, is only to suffer disgrace. — Steele. DCXCIV. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a Style.— Swift. DCXCV. What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd.... | |
| Ebenezer Porter, Lyman Matthews - Elocution - 1836 - 204 pages
...style : " The way in which a man expresses his conceptions by means of language." Swift says — " Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style." As this subject has been so often and so ably treated in books, to which every scholar has access,... | |
| Charles Richardson - English language - 1836 - 136 pages
...men'» writings or compositions are called different styles. Prideaux. Connection, pt. ib 7, p. 707. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. — Swift. Letter to a young Clergyman. SUAGE. If ther is tange of curing, ther is and (also) of swaging,... | |
| Henry Hopkins (A.M.) - 1837 - 224 pages
...of an inch hi diameter. stile. — style. The little boy cannot get over the stile by himself. . ' " Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style." The sheep got out of the field between the bars of the stile. In the commission which he issued, the... | |
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