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In this book, that repulsive monster of style Gutzkow appears as a classic, and, according to its injunctions, we seem to be called upon to accustom ourselves to quite a new and wondrous crowd of classical authors, among which the first, or one of the first, is David Strauss: he whom we cannot describe more aptly than we have already that is to say, as a worthless stylist.
What I really wonder at is that, with all your experience, you are not more of a stylist." "Stylist?" "Yes. I don't believe there's an epigram in your book from beginning to end. That's the reason the critics don't quote any brilliant sentences from it, and the publishers can't advertise it properly.
It is a spot peculiarly secluded, to be within sight and sound of Edinburgh, lying hidden in the lap of the hills, sheltered "frae nirly nippin' Eas'lan' breeze and haar o' seas." It was there Stevenson began deliberately to educate himself to become the Master Stylist the "Virgil of prose" of his contemporaries. These Pentlands were to him always the hills of home.
Thus Cicero became the creator of the modern classical Latin prose, and Roman classicism attached itself throughout and altogether to Cicero as a stylist; it was to the stylist Cicero, not to the author, still less to the statesman, that the panegyrics extravagant yet not made up wholly of verbiage applied, with which the most gifted representatives of classicism, such as Caesar and Catullus, loaded him.
He's a great stylist; everybody says he is, and so is George Meredith. You must like him?" "He's a great intellect, but a little of him goes almost as long a way as a little of Browning. I think I prefer Henry James." "Oh yes, he's just coming up. He's the one that has distinction. But the people who write like him are a great deal more popular.
Moore says, "Seen through my temperament, the day appeared fine." Where another man would say "Milton has obviously a fine style," Mr. Moore would say, "As a stylist Milton had always impressed me." The Nemesis of this self-centred spirit is that of being totally ineffectual. Mr. Moore has started many interesting crusades, but he has abandoned them before his disciples could begin.
Roosevelt possesses that persuasive grace of oratory which made Mr. Gladstone one of the greatest public speakers of modern times. For oratory as a fine art, he has no use whatever; he is neither a stylist nor an elocutionist; what he has to say he says with conviction and in the most direct and effective phraseology that he can find through which to bring his hearers to his way of thinking.
We may not now agree, but Williams may yet prove to us he is right and we are wrong. The last member of the Davis Cup team and youngest player of the Americans is Charles S. Garland, the Yale star. Garland is the perfect stylist, the orthodox model for ground strokes. He is an example of what stroke perfection can do.
Inasmuch as the noble Latin language, just before it perished as a national idiom, was once more as it were comprehensively grasped by that dexterous stylist and deposited in his copious writings, something of the power which language exercises, and of the piety which it awakens, was transferred to the unworthy vessel.
'To-day, yes, but to-morrow there might be two. 'It could hardly be to-morrow, said the stylist. 'For that happens to be a Monday. Barzinsky bashed the table. 'Mr. President, are we here for business or are we not? 'You may be here for business I am here for religion, retorted Straumann the stylist. 'You you snub-nosed monkey, what do you mean? 'Order, order, gentlemen, said the Parnass.
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