 ... will not be too big here, hanging like a giant's robe on the limbs of a dwarf; nor too small there, as a boy's garments into which the man has painfully and ridiculously thrust himself. You do not feel in one place that the writer means more than...  New Practical Speller - Page 147by James Hosmer Penniman - 1900 - 154 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1851 - 172 pages
...which only, we ought in the case before us to employ, which will be the exact vesture of our thought. It is the first characteristic of a welldressed man...thrust himself. You do not feel in one place that the I 2 writer means more than he has succeeded in saying ; in another that he has said more than he means... | |
 | 1852 - 644 pages
...such a prime characteristic of a good style tla.t the words fit close to the thoughts : they will net be too big here, hanging like a giant's robe on the limbs of a dwarf ; nor too small there, a* 256 TRENCH ON THE STUDY OF WORDS. a boy's garments into which the man has with difficulty and ridiculously... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...they can be made secure, that is, by assigning to each its appropriate word and peculiar sign. What an help moreover will it prove to the writing of a good...there, as a boy's garments into which the man has painfully and ridiculously thrust himself. You do not feel in one place that the writer means more... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1859 - 296 pages
...they can be made secure, that is, by assigning to each its appropriate word and peculiar sign. What an help moreover will it prove to the writing of a good...there, as a boy's garments into which the man has painfully and ridiculously thrust himself. You do not feel in one place that the writer meaus more... | |
 | 1859 - 684 pages
...another, we at once know which, and which only, we ought in the case before us to employ, which will prove the exact vesture of our thoughts. It is the first...there, as a boy's garments into which the man has painfully and ridiculously thrust himself. You do not, as you read, feel in one place that the writer... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1860 - 264 pages
...they can be made secure, that is, by assigning to each its appropriate word and peculiar sign. What an help moreover will it prove to the writing of a good...there, as a boy's garments into which the man has painfully and ridiculously thrust himself. You do not feel in one place that the writer means more... | |
 | Henry Butter - 1860 - 332 pages
...of our thoughts. It is the first characteristic of a well-dressed man that his clothes fit him; that they are not too small and shrunken here, too large...limbs of a dwarf; nor too small there, as a boy's garment into which the man has with difficulty and ridiculously thrust himself. We do not feel in one... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1860 - 264 pages
...shrunken here, too large and loose there. Now it is precisely such a prime characteristic of a good stylo that the words fit close to the thoughts : they will...there, as a boy's garments into which the man has painfully and ridiculously thrust himself. You do not feel in one place that the writer means more... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1861 - 262 pages
...they can be made secure, that is, by assigning to each its appropriate word and peculiar sign. What an help moreover will it prove to the writing of a good...there, as a boy's garments into which the man has painfully and ridiculously thrust himself. You do not feel in one place that the writer means more... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1863 - 264 pages
...they can be made secure, that is, by assigning to each its appropriate word and peculiar sign. What an help moreover will it prove to the writing of a good...there, as a boy's garments into which the man has painfully and ridiculously thrust himself. You do not feel in one place that the writer means more... | |
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