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Updated: May 7, 2025
Compared with the rich, capricious, wilful, lingering by the way of Lamb's manner, Pater's is precise, demure and over-grave, Wilde's fantastic and over-provocative, Ruskin's intolerably rhetorical. Into what other prose style could the magic of Shakespeare's "little touches" be drawn, or the high melancholy of Milton's imagery be led, without producing a frightful sense of the incongruous?
For, indeed, before that I did lose Mirdath my Beautiful One, I was not over-grave; but so young and joyous as any. Now it took me a great time to go upward of the Rock; for it was so monstrous steep and high.
A most engaging morsel of seventeen summers, he decided, as he answered with over-grave concern: "What a hard fate! but you have not told me yet why you ran away!" The girl had finished her toilet by now, and reseated herself with a grown-up air in the big armchair.
"Come here, Lilimond, and sit beside me. Methinks you seem over-grave this morning." "It is my birthday, Your Majesty," replied the Prince, as he slowly obeyed his father and sat beside him upon the rich broidered cushions of the throne. "I am twelve years of age." "So old!" said the King, smiling into the little face that was raised to his. "And is it the weight of years that makes you sad?"
These folk are strange people, and you must hold their love, even as you have it now, for you will get from their kindness what all the pennons in your army could not wring from them." "You are over-grave to-day, John," the prince answered. "We may keep such questions for our council-chamber. But how now, my brothers of Spain, and of Majorca, what think you of this challenge?"
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