...wit of man devise a more appalling image ? Mr. Matthew Arnold once said to me : "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is ! Have...clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." This dictum applies, I think, at least as well to conversation as to literature. The one thing needful...

...wit of man devise a more appalling image ? Mr. Matthew Arnold once said to me : "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is ! Have...clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." This dictum applies, I think, at least as well to conversation as to literature. The one thing needful...

...literary composition and yet he once said to Mr. Russell : " People think I can teach them a style ! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can, that is the only secret of style." Whitman's friends took his saying literally ; and all writing, which had a semblance of style, they...

...they are few) have acquired the " style" of which one of our greatest critics once said to a friend, " Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of 'style.'"1 And Pascal had this "style" in unsurpassed degree, and in addition he was endowed with imagination...

...not only of the gchool, but of the lineage, of Wordsworth. When we come to consider Matthew Arnold as a prose-writer, cautions and qualifications are...clearness he added singular grace, great skill in phrase- making, great aptitude for beautiful description, perfect naturalness, absolute ease. The very...

...not only of the school, but of the lineage, of Wordsworth. When we come to consider Matthew Arnold as a prose-writer, cautions and qualifications are...clearness he added singular grace, great skill in phrase. making, great aptitude for beautiful description, perfect naturalness, absolute ease. The very...

...The beginner who is apt to be worried about "style" can fall back upon Matthew Arnold's advice : " Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can; that is the only secret of style." De Blowitz, the famous Times correspondent, said truly of journalism, " A man's success is in proportion...

...all by having something to say. " People think that I can teach them style," said Matthew Arnold. " What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say...clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." We read in literary biographies of men who spent years in the quest of style. Some of them never found...

...the preparation of a speech as clearness of utterance in its delivery. In Matthew Aronold's words, "Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." In political life it is an axiom that what is known as "the platform manner" is as unsuited to the...

...think that I can teach them style," said Matthew Arnold. " What stuff it all is ! Have some\A thing to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." We read in literary biographies of men who spent years in the quest of style. Some of them never found...