 For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. In style, to consider what ought to be written, and after what manner. He must first think, and excogitate...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 114by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 pages
...Lyly. Books, such as are worthy the name of books, ought to have no patrons but truth and sense. Bacon. For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. Joiison. A good memory is the best monument. Others are subject to casualty or time ; and we know that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...DIRECTIONS FOR WRITING WELL.1 Fora man to write well, there are required three necessaries: — lo read the best authors; observe the best speakers; and much exercise of his own style. In style, to consider what ought to be written, and after what manner ; he must first think, and excogitate... | |
 | Percival Keane (pseud.) - 1873 - 128 pages
...other." WHAT portions of the body are the best travellers ? — The two wrists. How TO WRITE WELL. — For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. — Jonson. METAPHORICAL COMPARISONS. — A countryman, giving evidence before a magistrate the other... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pages
...menace of them ; for it is both deformed and servile. cxx1v. De stylo, et Optimo scribendi genere. — For a man to / write well, there are required three...necessaries : .to, -^ read the best authors, observe the be st qpsalfrq, and much pyprrjgp nf his flwn^style. In style to consider what ought to be written,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...(Iliad, 1660 ; Odyssey, 1665). Without the help &c. Cf. Ben Jonson's recipe : ' For a man to write weil, there are required three necessaries : to read the...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.' Habitudes, modes or conditions of hav1ng or keeping; relations, customs, frequent intercourse. He contracted.... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1878 - 522 pages
...morning, and at noon-day will I pray." — Bible. 'For a man to write well there are .... required, to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.' — BEN JONSON. [Here the ordinary noun exercise is awkwardly linked with two verbal nouns, each having... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...than the pencil; for that can speak to the understanding ; the other but to the sense. .ft, p. 754. For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. -ft., p. 75»Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...memory upon favorite passages in the Latin and Greek poets. In method, he was careful and precise: 'For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers; and much exercise of his own style. In style, to consider what ought to be written, and after what manner; he must first think, and excogitate... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...in the Latin and Greek poets. In method, he was careful and precise: 'For a man to write well, then1 are required three necessaries: — to read the best...best speakers; and much exercise of his own style. In style, to consider what ought to be written, and after what manner; he must first, think, and excogitate... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...or ferule I would have them free, as from the menace of them ; for it is both deformed and servile. For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers : and much exercise of his own style. In style to consider, what ought to be written ; and after what manner. He must first think and excogitate... | |
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