 | 1829 - 696 σελίδες
...can write well without having read much. Let us attend to Ben Jonson's remarks on this subject. — " For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best books, observe the best speakers, and much exercise his own style. In style, to consider what ought... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 σελίδες
...who as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate. Essay t, or Counsels, Civil and Moral. JONSON. For a man to write well, there are required three...speakers ; and much exercise of his own style. In style to.considt.r what ought to be written ; and after what .:. M 3 manner : manner : he must first think,... | |
 | 1829 - 576 σελίδες
...from so fortuitous a rin um. stance. — La Belle Assemhlíe. Requisites for a Man to write tvell. — For a man to write well there are required three necessaries — to read the hest hooks, ohserve the hest speakers, and much exercise his own style. In style, to consider what... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 448 σελίδες
...composition he laid down for himself; the second is interesting as a criticism on his great rival. " For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to reade the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. In style to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 σελίδες
...great advantage, and the style is unusually close, precise, and pure. DIRECTIONS FOR WRITING WELL.1 For a man to write well, there are required three...much exercise of his own style. In style, to consider vvhat ought to be written, and after what manner ; he must first think, and excogitate his matter ;... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 σελίδες
...all, that which is worse than all the rest, a lawless tyranny. — Arnold. 386. How TO WRITE WELL. — For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries ; to reade the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his owne style. In style to... | |
 | Henry White - 1856 - 168 σελίδες
...projectile, Dublin, Exeter. 8 Put the proper stops to the following passage and explain it : — " For a man to write well there are required three necessaries to reade the best authors observe the best speakers and much exercise of his owne style." 9 Write the... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1860 - 274 σελίδες
...projectile, Dublin, Exeter. 8. Put the proper stops to the following passage, and explain it : — " For a man to write well there are required three necessaries to reade the best authors observe the best speakers and much exercise of his owne style." 9. Write the... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 σελίδες
...critic he followed the injunctions ol Ben Jonson in that masterly posthumous work the ' Discoveries :' ' For a man to write well there are required three necessaries:...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.' Addison's first efforts in the ' Spectator ' were to correct public taste, which had degenerated during... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 σελίδες
...Lyly. Books, such as are worthy the name of books, ought to have no patrons but truth and sense. Bacon. For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. Joiison. A good memory is the best monument. Others are subject to casualty or time ; and we know that... | |
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For a man to — write well, there are required three necessaries — to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. 
