 Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set...  Language for Men of Affairs - Page 4831920Full view - About this book
 | Lewis Worthington Smith - 1916 - 312 pages
...Here is what Robert Louis Stevenson has to say about his early apprenticeship to the literary art. " Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1920 - 134 pages
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labors at home.13 Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, I must sit down at once to ape u that quality. I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt,15 to... | |
 | William Mather Lewis - 1917 - 194 pages
...Drama in which all mankind has a part. In his "Memories and Portraits" Robert Louis Stevenson says : "Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 240 pages
...theory of learning to write. Plainly and clearly and with just enough detail, he tells us how he did it. "Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | 1918 - 388 pages
...— Robert Louis Stevenson — sent to me by a friend who had seen the quotation I have just read : Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1919 - 438 pages
...writes it a' doon." At home, he gave himself still more rigorous training. "Whenever I read a book or passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1920 - 248 pages
...using this device in teaching pupils the art of writing. The words of Stevenson are familiar to all: "Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1920 - 238 pages
...Abbey .... 174 INTRODUCTION. "Whenever I read a book or a passage," says Stevenson,1 " that peculiarly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labors at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery - 1921 - 366 pages
...comes easily to a gifted writer. But what does Stevenson say himself ? " Whenever a book or a passage particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
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