 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
 | 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... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...boohes of the Proficicuu and Advancement of Learning, divine and humane.) BEN JONSON. b. 1374, d. 1637. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries; to reade the best authors; observe the best speakers; and much exercise of his owne style. In style to... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1889 - 424 pages
...this paper admonishes me to be brief, I cannot refrain from one or two quotations. JONSON begins: " 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... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1890 - 304 pages
...These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken A load would sink a navy, too much honour. — Shakespeare. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries :— to read the best authors ; obsmie the best speakers; and much exercise of his own style.— Ben Jonton. Histories make men wise... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1890 - 314 pages
...These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken A load would sink a navy, too much honour.— Shakespeare. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries :— to read the bett authors; observe the best speakers; and much exmase of his own style.— Ben Jonson. Histories... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...both deformed* and servile. * single persons. 8 degrading. De sty/o, el Optimo scrihcndi gcttcre.* 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 228 pages
...the menace of them ; for it is both deformed and servile. De^ stilq^et optimo scribendi genere. — 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 218 pages
...them ; for it is both deformed and servile. De stilo, et optima scribendi genere. — For a man to 20 write well, there are required three necessaries —...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 pages
...; for it is both deformed and servile. De stilo, et optima scribendi genere. — - For a man to Cio write well, there are required three necessaries —....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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...them ; for it is both deformed and servile. De stilo, et optima scribendi genere. — For a man to well, there are required three necessaries — to...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 f^t£-if£^£e... | |
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