 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1918 - 352 pages
...of Samuel Butler, the " Enfant Terrible of Literature " (as his editor calls him) has this passage : I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains...is quite enough to explain to me why I dislike him. . . . Men like Newman and RL Stevenson seem to have taken pains to acquire what they called a style... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1926 - 562 pages
...masters of English Style, has related in an amusing essay the pains he took to acquire his Style." I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains...was at the same time readable. Plato's having had 185 seventy shies at one sentence is quite enough to explain to me why I dislike him. A man may, and... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1923 - 430 pages
...important person than the Denver editor, — Samuel Butler, "Erewhon" Butler, — speaks as follows: "I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains...with his style and was at the same time readable. ... A man may, and ought to take a great deal of pains to write clearly, tersely, and euphemistically:... | |
 | Francis Henry Pritchard - 1923 - 214 pages
...of Erewhon fame, and his very apt pupil George Bernard Shaw. The former says, for example, that he never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains...with his style and was at the same time readable. Taking the cue from him, Mr Shaw, in the preface to Man and Superman, calls style " a pleasant parlour... | |
 | Francis Henry Pritchard - 1924 - 258 pages
...the "inevitable" word, and laugh at artistic "effects." Prominent among these are^amand his very apt took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. Taking the cue from him, Mr. Shaw, in the preface to Man and Superman, calls style "a pleasant parlor... | |
 | David Graham - 1925 - 380 pages
...clearly, and very vividly, and there will be nothing wanting. Samuel Butler says : " I never knew a writer who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable."—' Notebooks,' p. 186. 1 ' Modern Painters,' Vol. iii. pp. 29-37. " Artists considered as searchers after... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1926 - 576 pages
...masters of English style, has related in an amusing essay the pains he took to acquire his style." I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains...was at the same time readable. Plato's having had STYLE seventy shies at one sentence is quite enough to explain to me why I dislike him. A man may,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert - 1928 - 370 pages
...quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer." " I never knew a writer who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable." "I should like to put it on record that I never took the smallest pains with my style. . . ." The effect... | |
 | John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert - 1928 - 360 pages
...quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer." " I never knew a writer who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable." "I should like to put it on record that I never took the smallest pains with my style. . . ." The effect... | |
 | Peter Stansky, William Miller Abrahams - 1994 - 678 pages
...Orwell at his most characteristic, offhand, and assured.) I never knew a writer yet [Butler declared] who took the smallest pains with his style and was...great deal of pains to write clearly, tersely and euphoniously: he will write many a sentence three or four times over — to do much more than this... | |
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. 
