Theoretically, of course, one ought always to try for the best word. But practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best word too easily becomes... Notes and Queries - Page 4191909Full view - About this book
| Francis Thompson - 1909 - 104 lehte
...practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best...combinations into which the pieces will be shifted. There is, in fact, a certain band of words, the Pratorian cohorts of poetry, whose prescriptive aid... | |
| Francis Thompson - 1909 - 108 lehte
...practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best...combinations into which the pieces will be shifted. There is, in fact, a certain band of words, the Praetorian cohorts of poetry, whose prescriptive aid... | |
| Francis Thompson - 1909 - 146 lehte
...practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best...combinations into which the pieces will be shifted. There is, in fa6t, a certain band of words, the Praetorian cohof fs~ of poetry, whose prescriptive... | |
| Francis Thompson - 1909 - 104 lehte
...practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best...from ordinary speech. In consequence of this, poetic diftion has become latterly a kaleidoscope, and one's chief curiosity is as to the precise combinations... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1916 - 332 lehte
...practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best...word, the word most removed from ordinary speech. In conquence of this, poetic diction has become latterly a kaleidoscope, and one's chief curiosity is... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1916 - 328 lehte
...habit of always taking the most ornate word, the word most removed from ordinary speech. In conquence of this, poetic diction has become latterly a kaleidoscope,...combinations into which the pieces will be shifted. There is, in fact, a certain band of words, the Praetorian cohorts of Poetry, whose prescriptive aid... | |
| 1916 - 880 lehte
...Thompson says : " The habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity, and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best word too easily becomes the habit of taking the most ornate word, the word most removed from ordinary speech." Thus he himself was aware... | |
| Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1920 - 498 lehte
...poetry, in general," he wrote, "as compared with the poetry of the nineteenth century, is mildewed. . . . Poetic diction has become latterly a kaleidoscope, and one's chief curiosity is as to the precise combination into which the pieces will be shifted. There is, in fact, a certain band of words, the... | |
| Rollo Walter Brown - 1921 - 386 lehte
...practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best...combinations into which the pieces will be shifted. There is, in fact, a certain band of words, the Praetorian cohorts of Poetry, whose prescriptive aid... | |
| G.A. Natesan - 1925 - 1088 lehte
...criticism " the habit of excessive care in word selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity ; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best...word, the word most removed from ordinary speech." I remember well an Indian friend showing to me a book of verses, sent to him as to a fellow-scholar... | |
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