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Updated: June 23, 2025
With our wider appreciation of literary effect, and our more historical and less authoritative manner of judging works of art, we can no longer endorse Sidney's famous criticism: 'That same framing of his stile, to an old rustick language, I dare not alowe, sith neyther Theocritus in Greeke, Virgill in Latine, nor Sanazar in Italian, did affect it. If a writer finds an effective and picturesque word in an old author or in a homely dialect it is but pedantry that opposes its use, and it matters little moreover from what quarter of the land it may hail, as Stevenson knew when he claimed the right of mingling Ayrshire with his Lothian verse.
His "instructions," two of which seemed strange to his nephew, and to need careful wording, ran as follows: "The one was that he would have an especial Statute to be made that neyther the head of the house, nor any of the fellowes should be married; the other that he would not tye any man to any profession, as eyther devinitie, lawe, or phisicke, but leave every man free to profess what he liked, as it should please God to direct him.
With Lilian in my thoughts, they would be hard indeed if I could not square with whatever terms he might propose. "They ain't unpossible neyther o' 'em; thur only just an' fair." "Let me hear them; and believe me, Hickman Holt, I shall judge them most liberally." "Fust, then, you called me a coward. Do you take that back?" "Willingly I do." "So fur good; an' now for tother proposal I hev to make.
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