Word: jars
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate-neither more nor less. I have often thought that a happy image of it is an Italian girl with a jar of water on her head. The necessity of an exact balance gives dignity and something which may almost be called repose, to every motion. If the jar be of classical outline, as it often is, our pleasure is heightened. So in the matter of expression. The first requisite is (as Mrs. Glasse says...
...Cook excels. Instead of the eight men letting their bodies move gradually forward on the slides, allipull on their stretchers, making the first part of the slide very rapid, while they slow down just before finishing the slide, so as to avoid a sudden stop with its accompanying jar and retarding of the boat...
...sight of misery that he is callous to it, so used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise of the city, wonder at strange sights, shudder at crime and are shocked by vice. They cannot look at disturbances with equanimity and are more likely to form more intense convictions and to be moved by a sterner purpose than the careless city people. Their firmness of purpose...