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Alexander Pope
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.
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Alexander Pope
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Alexander Pope
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.
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Alexander Pope
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Hosea Ballou
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Hosea Ballou
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Isaac D'Israeli
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.
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Isaac D'Israeli
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.
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Junius
The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.
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Junius
The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.
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Matthew Prior
When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.
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Matthew Prior
When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.
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Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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