| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pages
...called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive and nowhere emphatic, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indefinable completeness. On a lower plane we may detect it in the structure of a sentence, in the... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 pages
...called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive and nowhere emphatic, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indefinable completeness. On a lower plane we may detect it in the structure of a sentence, in the... | |
| 1872 - 818 pages
...called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive and nowhere emphatic, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indefinable completeness." — Among my Books, p. 175. The adhering fault (slight, to be sure) in it... | |
| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive and nowhere emphatic, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indefinable completeness. On a lower plane we may detect it in the structure of a sentence, in the... | |
| 1921 - 774 pages
...so Lowell declared, "like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive and nowhere emphatic, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indefinable completeness." II Has Dr. Johnson a style? Or is his manner of writing only a mannerism,... | |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 360 pages
...called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive and nowhere emphatic, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indefinable completeness." (" Among My Books," p. 175.) The adhering fault (slight, to be sure) in... | |
| Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - 900 pages
...— in his AdonaXs ; an Escape by Shelley — in his Fugitives, and by Campbell, in his Lord UUin's Daughter.) (6) The discussion of separate literary...of argument and the results would be given in the torm of an essay or paper.) (7) The story of a play of Shakespeare. (8) The analysis of some character... | |
| Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 506 pages
...called style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive and nowhere emphatic, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indefinable completeness. On a lower plane we may detect it in the structure of a sentence, in the... | |
| Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1883 - 936 pages
...(6) The discussion •of separate literary dicta — like the following by Russell Lowell : " Stylo, like the grace of perfect breeding, makes itself felt...of argument and the results would be given in the torm of an essay or paper.) (7) The story of a play of Shakespeare. (8) The analysis of some character... | |
| Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1883 - 984 pages
...— in his Adanate ; an Escape by Shelley — in his Fugitives, and by Campbell, in his Lord Uttitis Daughter) (6) The discussion of separate literary...last with a sense of indescribable completeness." (Tliia might be at first discussed in the class-room ; and then the line of argument and the results... | |
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