Style

Indifference to style ... is almost always symptomatic of the dogmatic sclerosis of content.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.

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Expression is the dress of thought, and stillIs like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

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Style is the dress of thoughts.

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And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

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Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse,—in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

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The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.

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Neat, not gaudy.

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When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."

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