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"Aw, you needn't be correcting my English," responded Ikey. "There are no medals on you for being a purist." "Wow, wow!" yelled Torry. "Listen to him sling language." "Hold on, fellows," Whistler said, diving for the glass he never went to sea without. "That's no smack." They all had turned to look at the approaching craft which Ikey had first sighted.
"He was always," Richard continued reminiscently, "a sort of cross between a dreamer, an idealist, and a sportsman. There was never anything of the practical man of affairs about him. He was scrupulously honourable, and almost a purist in his outlook upon life.
Stevenson telling me, at this time, that he was doing some "regular crawlers," for this purist had a boyish habit of slang, and I think it was he who called Julius Caesar "the howlingest cheese who ever lived." Mr. Stevenson had an infinite pleasure in Boisgobey, Montepin, and, of course, Gaboriau. There was nothing of the "cultured person" about him.
Desmond and John joined in this hunt of the right word with enthusiasm. One evening the four boys encountered the simple sentence "majoris pretii quam quod aestimari possit." "'Priceless' 'll cover that," said Caesar. "Or 'inesteemable," said the Demon. The three other boys stared at the Demon, and then at each other. The Caterpillar, something of a purist in his way, drawled out
Halévy's genius and taste in music bear much the same relation to the French stage as do those of Verdi to the Italian stage; though the former composer is conceded by critics to be a greater purist in musical form, if he rarely equals the Italian composer in the splendid bursts of musical passion with which the latter redeems so much that is meretricious and false, and the charming melody which Verdi shares with his countrymen.
The Tenor had expected to hear him swear at it; but, oddly enough, considering some of his aberrations, the Boy never swore. His ideas were occasionally shocking, but, with the exception of certain boyishnesses, in the expression of them he was a purist. He went off now, however, anathematizing the chime, and the Tenor was almost glad to get rid of him.
In the Department of Deux-Sevres ducklings had lived peculiar and beautiful lives and died in the odour of satiety to furnish the main theme of the dish; champignons, which even a purist for Saxon English would have hesitated to address as mushrooms, had contributed their languorous atrophied bodies to the garnishing, and a sauce devised in the twilight reign of the Fifteenth Louis had been summoned back from the imperishable past to take its part in the wonderful confection.
More than one literary purist might identify him as a shoddy newspaper correspondent without the necessary faculty of style. And yet the story touches home; and if you are of the weeping order of mankind, you will certainly find your eyes fill with tears, of which you have no reason to be ashamed. There is only one way to characterise a work of this order, and that is to quote.
I am quite as much of a purist as that professor at Ardmore what was his name? that they tell the story about. The dear dean told him that some of the undergrads complained that his language was 'too pedantic and unintelligible." "'Never, Madam! Impossible! Why, said the prof, 'to employ a vulgarism, perspicuity is my penultimate appellative." "Ow!
There are certain uses of words to which the twentieth century purist will take exception; but if he is familiar with Victorian literature he will know that these points have been solved within the last few decades and not all solved to the satisfaction of everyone, even now.
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