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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal
traits in the author.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: Manuscript Sermons
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The style is the man.
[Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]
Author: George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Source: Discourse on taking his seat in the French Academie
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Style is the dress of thoughts.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Source: Letter to his Son--On Education
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And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge
of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but
his style.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Literary Miscellanies--Style
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Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very
thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly
as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the
throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is
at least subjected to the action of the will.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Literary Miscellanies--Style
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The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy
madness of poetry without the inspiration.
Author: Junius
Source: To Sir W. Draper (letter no. VIII)
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Neat, not gaudy.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: in a letter to Wordsworth
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
[Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]
Author: Francesco Petrarch
Source: Morte di Laura (sonnet 68)
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style.
Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay of Criticism (pt. II, l. 126)
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,
Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 318)
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When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good
imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a
good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force;
it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it
has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."
Author: Matthew Prior
Source: Life of Burke
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
[Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
Author: Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
Source: Reflexions et Maximes (4)
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
[Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
Author: Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
Source: Reflexions et Maxims (5)
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
[Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: L'Enfant Prodigue--Preface
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties
are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but
the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon,
or a didactic work.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: Philosophical Dictionary--Style
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