 | 1868 - 556 σελίδες
...our poor vessels in accordance with them. Pray tell us what a weighty sentence should be. Ellexmеrc. It should be powerful in its substantives, choice...nicely correct in its verbs : not a word that could bo added, nor one which the most fastidious would venture to suppress: in order lucid, in sequence... | |
 | 1868 - 874 σελίδες
...our poor vessels in accordance with them. Pray tell us what a weighty sentence should be. Ellesmere. It should be powerful in its substantives, choice and discreet in its adjectives, nicely correct in ita verbs : not a word that could be added, nor one which the most fastidious would venture to suppress:... | |
 | 1915 - 826 σελίδες
...his ideal of a perfect sentence: " It should be powerful in its substantives, choice and disci'eet in its adjectives, nicely correct in its verbs ; not...sequence, logical; in method, perspicuous, and yet with a pleasing and inviting intricacy which disappears as you advance in the sentence; the language throughout... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome - 1881 - 446 σελίδες
...mind's eye prophetic, this composition, when in Realinah he defined the "weighty sentence" : — " Powerful in its substantives, choice and discreet...could be added, nor one which the most fastidious could venture to suppress; in order lucid, in sequence logical, in method perspicuous, and yet with... | |
 | William Ballantyne Hodgson - 1882 - 250 σελίδες
...however, let us hear a ' weighty sentence' defined, in words that well illustrate the definition:— ' It should be powerful in its substantives, choice...in its verbs: not a word that could be added, nor M& ;„ „, ,., one which the most fastidious would venture to suppress: in order lucid, in ' ' sequence... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 σελίδες
...they may be pleasant to read, or they may be dull and heavy. (u) Sir Arthur Helps says : " A sentence should be powerful in its substantives, choice and...; in sequence, logical ; in method, perspicuous." 2. The manner in which we put our sentences together is called style. That style may be good or bad;... | |
 | John Earle - 1887 - 812 σελίδες
...lay down the lines for us, Ellesmere . . . Pray tell us what a weighty sentence should be. Ellesmere. It should be powerful in its substantives, choice...pleasant and inviting intricacy which disappears as yon advance in the sentence : the language, throughout, not quaint, not obsolete, not common, and not... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 266 σελίδες
...they may be pleasant to read, or they may be dull and heavy. (ii) Sir Arthur Helps says : " A sentence should be powerful in its substantives, choice and...; in sequence, logical ; in method, perspicuous." 2. The manner in which we put our sentences together is called style. That style may be good or bad;... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 σελίδες
...they may be pleasant to read, or they may be dull and heavy. (ii) Sir Arthur Helps says: " A sentence should be powerful in its substantives, choice and...lucid ; in sequence, logical; in method, perspicuous." 2. The manner in which we put our sentences together is called style. That style may be good or bad;... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 494 σελίδες
...they may be pleasant to read, or they may be dull and heavy. (ii) Sir Arthur Helps says : " A sentence should be powerful in its substantives, choice and...; in sequence, logical ; in method, perspicuous." 2. The manner in which we put our sentences together is called style. That style may be good or bad;... | |
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A sentence should be powerful in its substantives, choice and discreet in its adjectives, nicely correct in its verbs ; not a word that could be added, nor one which the most fastidious would venture to suppress ; in order, lucid ; in sequence, logical... 
