Word: styles
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...become acquainted with an author's style, and derive benefit and pleasure from his works, it is not necessary to read everything he has written. Yet what we do read, we should read with moderate care at least; since a novel from which we can learn nothing as to excellence of style, delineation of character, or relation of events, - and none of these benefits can be gained from superficial reading, - ought not to take the time of any one, unless he reads wholly for pleasure. We usually do better, therefore, to skip volumes rather than pages. Because we cannot...
...sorry to see that the personal and intensely local style which has so long characterized many of our Western exchanges has appeared nearer home. It is an exotic that ought not to flourish in Massachusetts...
...Transcript, from Delaware, Ohio, is amusing in the glimpse it affords of the manners and customs of the natives. They have high-toned stationers out there, and neat things in visiting-cards in advance of the Paris style, as is seen in the following advertisement...
...which were well delivered and much appreciated by the audience. Among the selections by Mr. Lyon were: Tennyson's Lady Clare, Poe's Bells, The Maniac, Little Jim, and others. His delivery of Tennyson's Lady Clare was excellent, and served well to illustrate his powers in that style of reading. Poe's Bells, however, was by all odds his best delivered and most appreciated selection. His manner of imitating the sound of bells was strikingly original and natural in its effect, and his delivery of the piece as a whole can hardly be too highly praised. In the Quarrel...
Being driven around the city once by a man who, by his devotional signs made at every church we passed by, seemed to be a very devout Catholic, I determined to address him in Latin, and began in the approved Lanonian style to repeat to him the "Ave Maria." "Si, si, is entende," was the reply; and in a few minutes he drew up before a place with the sign "Sorvetes," which I had previously learned, by experience bien entendu, meant "American drinks compounded." I did not enlighten him, however, and I feel certain that he thinks to this...