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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties read more
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.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things
Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward
Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward
Style is the perfection of a point of view
Style is the perfection of a point of view
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal
traits in the author.
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal
traits in the author.
The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy
madness of poetry without the inspiration.
The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy
madness of poetry without the inspiration.
Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches
Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style.
Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style.
Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.
