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Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the
House of Saxe Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of ...
What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited Sketches,
full of Variety and Glow?--How could I possibly join them on to<
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The work is rather too light, bright, and sparkling; it wants
shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long<
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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I
did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration or a ...
If the warmth of her Language could affect the Body it might
be worth reading in this weather.
I wish you would not let him plunge into a ôvortex of
Dissipation.ö I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
A language is therefore a horizon, and style a vertical dimension, which together map out for the writer a Nature, since he does n ...
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