 So did the best writers in their beginnings: they imposed upon themselves care and industry; they did nothing rashly; they obtained first to write well, and then custom made it easy and a habit. By little and little their matter...  The Writer - 134. lappuse1927Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Darrell Figgis - 1911 - 370 lapas
...having none of the heat of new and urgent matter. He has even declared it as a principle of style that " ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready waiting " ; and, as though the latter admission seemed too great a concession to the pen of the ready... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 lapas
...and a habit. By little and little their matter showed itself to them more plentifully ; their words answered, their composition followed ; and all, as...we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it, as to give a horse a check sometimes with a bit, which doth not so much stop his... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1913 - 456 lapas
...The man dies, but his memory lives. 5. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. 6. Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing. Independent Clauses expressing thoughts in alternation. 7. Be temperate in youth, or you will have... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 lapas
...and a habit. By little and little their matter showed itself to them more plentifully; their words answered, their composition followed; and all, as...writing, but good writing brings on ready writing. JONSON (7), Timber. VIII. In youth, I wish to see luxuriancy of fancy. Much of it will be diminished... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1915 - 264 lapas
...more plentifully ; their words answer'd, their composition followed ; and all, as in a well-order'd family, presented itself in the place. So that the...but good writing brings on ready writing. Yet, when wee thinke we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it — as to give a Horse a check... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1920 - 148 lapas
...and a habit. By little and little their matter allowed itself to them more plentifully; their words answered, their composition followed; and all, as...we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it, as to give a horse a check sometimes with a bit, which doth not so much stop his... | |
 | Thomas Arthur Rickard - 1920 - 194 lapas
...showed itself to .them more plentifully; their words answered, their composition followed; and all, in a well-ordered family, presented itself in the...writing, but good writing brings on ready writing." XIV. STYLE. Technology has no recognized rank in what is called polite literature; the subject-matter... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 lapas
...them more plentifully; their words answered, their composition followed; and all, as in a well ordered family, presented itself in the place. So that the...we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it; as to give a horse a check sometimes with a bit, which doth not so much stop his... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1641 - 146 lapas
...followed; and all, as in a well-order'd family, presented it selfe in the place. So that the summe of all -.is: Ready writing makes not good writing;...but good writing brings on ready writing: Yet when wee thinke wee have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it: as to give a Horse a check... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1923 - 430 lapas
...agree that easy writing is likely to be bad writing. "The sum of all is," says Ben Jonson, in Timber, "ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing"; which reminds us of Sheridan's remark that "easy writing 's curst hard reading." "As it is fit," Jonson... | |
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