The Genius of Style

abstract achieve admirable æsthetic element æsthetic prose appears Arnold artist beauty become better Buffon called caricature Carlyle certainly character clarity and simplicity color conceived concrete consciously considered course critics dancing lady dignity doubt doubtless effect element of style emotion endue English prose Essays example fact feeling field French genius of style Goethe Henry James ideal illustrate imagination impulse individual inspiration instance instinct interest kind least less literary literature manner Marius the Epicurean Mark Twain matter Maurice Hewlett ment merely mind modern art natural ness objective ideal one's order and movement perhaps plainly poetry practice present day principles prosaic prose poetry pure remark remember result rhythm rococo Ruskin's Samuel Butler sculpture seems sensation sense sentiment sion social speaking spirit of style stance stylistic substance sure talent taste Thackeray theory thing thought tion tive tradition ture uncon Victorian word writer