"In style" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dolly always had their things similar, different in colouring but alike in style. So their respective mothers had many confabs before the grave questions ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... has digested his material and compressed his narrative without taking the life out of his story in a manner to make us despair, and this does not, I take it, come from paucity of materials. A test which I began to make as a study in style has helped me in estimating the solidity of a writer. Washington Irving formed his style by reading attentively from time to time a page of Addison and then, closing the book, endeavored to write out the ...
— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes
... take a broad view they can see the elements of goodness or beauty everywhere, and they cease to be enthusiastic in regard to one. The great popular preachers are not university men, or those who are quiet and literary in style, but ...
— Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" • Various
... Argus I should place the South Australian Register, published in Adelaide, as the best daily paper in Australia. In style and get-up it is almost an exact copy of its Melbourne contemporary, and its published price is twopence. In reports and correspondence it is quite as enterprising, but its leading columns and critiques being almost ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
... you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumbering so many years in the silence of oblivion, coming out now with all my years upon my back, and with a book as dry as a rush, devoid of invention, meagre in style, poor in thoughts, wholly wanting in learning and wisdom, without quotations in the margin or annotations at the end, after the fashion of other books I see, which, though all fables and profanity, are so full of maxims from Aristotle, and Plato, and the whole herd ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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