 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 356 halaman
...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 one or two Faults, which are eafy... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 halaman
...in the least desires to have them supplied. Proper words, in proper places, make the true difinirion of a style. But this would require too ample a disquisition...remedied*, with a very small portion of abilities, The * If should be — ' which are tat'ily to be remedied ;' that is, re, o 4 medied The first, is the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 554 halaman
...that any person either finds or acknowledges his wants upon this head, or in the least desires to have them supplied. Proper words, in proper places, make...remedied *, with a very small portion of abilities. The * It should be — ' which are easily to be remedied;' that i«, The first, is the frequent use of... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 halaman
...that any person either finds or acknowledges his wants upon tin* head, or in the least desire to have them supplied. Proper words in proper places make...definition of a style. But this would require too ample a discussion to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name one or two faults, which are easy... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 350 halaman
...that any person 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 • style. But this would require too ample a disquisitioi) to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 halaman
...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 - 1836 - 204 halaman
...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 - 1836 - 136 halaman
...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 halaman
...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... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 536 halaman
...of expression in painting or in rau>ic we mean just or forcible expression. Thus Swift has said, ' Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.' This however is merely to tell us, what is sufficientlyobvious, that the art of expressing thought... | |
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Proper words, in proper places, make the true definition of a style. 
