 ... that exquisite something 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.  New Outlook - Page 3671921Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pages
...dignity and permanence of a classic ; for it results in that exquisite something called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive...at last with a sense of indefinable completeness. On a lower plane we may detect it in the structure of a sentence, in the limpid expression that implies... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 pages
...dignity and permanence of a classic ; for it results in that exquisite something called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive...at last with a sense of indefinable completeness. On a lower plane we may detect it in the structure of a sentence, in the limpid expression that implies... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...dignity and permanence of a classic ; for it results in that exquisite something called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive...at last with a sense of indefinable completeness. On a lower plane we may detect it in the structure of a sentence, in the limpid expression that implies... | |
 | 1872 - 818 pages
...singularly delicate language in this about style : " that exquisite something called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive...at last with a sense of indefinable completeness." — Among my Books, p. 175. The adhering fault (slight, to be sure) in it is, that when we come to... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 360 pages
...singularly delicate language in this about style : " That exquisite something called Style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive...at last with a sense of indefinable completeness." (" Among My Books," p. 175.) The adhering fault (slight, to be sure) in it is, that when we come to... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - 900 pages
...literary dicta— like the following by Russell Lowell : " Style, like the grace of perfect breeding, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indescribable completeness." (This might be at first discussed in the class-room ; and then the line... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 506 pages
...dignity and permanence of a classic; for it results in that exquisite something called style, which, like the grace of perfect breeding, everywhere pervasive...at last with a sense of indefinable completeness. On a lower plane we may detect it in the structure of a sentence, in the limpid expression that implies... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1881 - 378 pages
...literary dicta — like the following by Russell Lowell: " Style, like the grace of perfect breeding, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indescribable completeness". (This might be at first discussed in the classroom ; and then the line... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1883 - 934 pages
...literary dicta — like the following by Russell Lowell : " Stylo, like the grace of perfect breeding, makes itself felt by the skill with which it effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indescribable completeness." (This might be at first discussed in the class-room ; and then the line... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...nearly come up to the standard in the following: — " Style, like the grace of perfect breeding, is everywhere pervasive and nowhere emphatic, makes itself...effaces itself, and masters us at last with a sense of indescribable completeness." Ex. 44. Mention any two passages which are fitly described in the following:—... | |
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