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
| 1927 - 416 pages
...and then turn to page 153 and check your selection with the words which were employed by the author.] 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... | |
| Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 pages
...playwright and an actor? Best of all are fonson's suggestions regarding the art of writing English : f For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style." Rugged and burly man that he was, Jonson despised euphuism and set the example of plain, straightforward... | |
| C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 pages
...however. It enacts the argument, so that the language used confirms as usual the "truth" propounded: 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... | |
| Mervin Block - 1997 - 332 pages
...the act of writing, and you cannot buy that in a bookstore or fix it up in a seminar." WILLIAM SAFIRE "For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style." BEN JONSON "A good narrative style does not attract attention to itself. Its job is to keep the reader's... | |
| David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...writing. Ben Jonson, 1640 (published posthumously), Timber: or. Discoveries made upon Men and Matter 21:51 For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. Ben Jonson, 1640 (published posthumously), Timber: or, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter 21:52 [on... | |
| Sean Keilen - 2006 - 254 pages
...of writing," Jonson underscored the affinity of reading and writing within the process of imitation: "For a man to write well, there are required three...authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise his own style." Ben Jonson, Timber: or Discoveries, in Complete Poems, ed. George Parfitt (London:... | |
| Kellie Buis - 2007 - 130 pages
...classroom use. Pembroke Publishers. For a man to write well: there are required three necessities; to read the best authors, observe the best speakers and much exercise in his own style. — Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter, 1 635 Stories beget stories.... | |
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