 | Ben Jonson - 1923 - 150 pages
...reade the best Authors, observe the gentry: best Speakers: and much exercise of his owne style. r , In style to consider, what ought to be written; and after what manner; Hee must first thinke, and excogitate his matter; then choose his words, and examine the weight of... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Authors, English - 1923 - 154 pages
...Necessaries. To reade the best Authors, oBserye the ~best Speakers: and much exercise of his owne style. I In style~ to consider, what ought to ~be written; and after what mannerj Hee must first tfijnke, and excogitate his matter; then choose his words, and examine the weight... | |
 | John Henry Grafton Grattan - English language - 1925 - 354 pages
...construction of more complicated Sentences, as well as to the study of Style. As Ben Jonson says : " For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style." — Discoveries. Section A exemplifies some of the ways in which the sentence above can be expanded... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - Poetry - 1925 - 346 pages
...Jonson From "Discoveries." For a man to write well, there are required three Necessaries. To reade the best Authors, observe the best Speakers : and much exercise of his owne style. In style to consider what ought to be written; and after what manner; Hee must first thinke,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1925 - 516 pages
...desineret', and 'quamdiu extra iocos se continebat, censoria oratio erat '. r educative process. ' For a man to write well, there are required three Necessaries. To reade the best Authors, observe the best Speakers : and much exercise of his owne style' (p. 115).... | |
 | James Fred McGrew - 1926 - 588 pages
...teach480, Page 190, Brins ley ing gave considerable importance to Tropes and Figures. 7. Jonson;"For a man to write well there are required three necessaries...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writ ing, «...«• «there... | |
 | Francis Meehan - English literature - 1928 - 764 pages
...playwright and an actor? Best of all are fonson's suggestions regarding the art of writing English : f For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style." Rugged and burly man that he was, Jonson despised euphuism and set the example of plain, straightforward... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...however. It enacts the argument, so that the language used confirms as usual the "truth" propounded: For a man to write well, there are required three Necessaries. To reade the best Authors, observe the best Speakers: and much exercise of his owne style. In style to... | |
 | Mervin Block - Broadcast journalism - 1997 - 332 pages
...the act of writing, and you cannot buy that in a bookstore or fix it up in a seminar." WILLIAM SAFIRE "For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style." BEN JONSON "A good narrative style does not attract attention to itself. Its job is to keep the reader's... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...writing. Ben Jonson, 1640 (published posthumously), Timber: or. Discoveries made upon Men and Matter 21:51 For a man to write well, there are required three...best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. Ben Jonson, 1640 (published posthumously), Timber: or, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter 21:52 [on... | |
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For a man to — write well, there are required three necessaries — to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. 
