 | 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 - 538 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...what ought to be written, and after what manner; he mnst firet think, and excogitate his matter; then choose his words, and examine the weight of either.... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 426 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...own style. In style to consider, what ought to be 32 ' BENJAMIN JONSON. written ; and after what manner. He must first think and excogitate his matter... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
