...Fuller and Browne, - — though he does use that abominable word reliable. His eye for a fine, telling phrase that will carry true is like that of a backwoodsman...Mather himself. A diction at once so rich and so homely us his I know not where to match in these days of writing by the page ; it is like homespun cloth-of-gold....

...he belongs to a better age than ours, and might rub shoulders with Fuller and Sir Thomas Browne — a diction at once so rich and so homely as his I know not where to match. It is like homespun cloth-of-gold. I know no one that can hold a promiscuous crowd in pleased attention...

...he belongs to a better age than ours, and might rub shoulders with Fuller and Sir Thomas Browne—a diction at once so rich and so homely as his I know not where to match. It is like homespun cloth-of-gold. I know no one that can hold a promiscuous crowd in pleased attention...

...a better age than ours, and might rub shoulders with Fuller and Browne. His eye for a fine, telling phrase that will carry true is like that of a backwoodsman...cloth-of-gold. The many cannot miss his meaning, and only tho few can find it. It is the open secret of all true genius." Says Theodore Parker: "The essays in...

...Fuller and Browne, — though he does use that abominable word reliable. His eye for a fine, telling phrase that will carry true is like that of a backwoodsman...from the mud of Cotton Mather himself. A diction at ouce so rich and so homely as his I know not where to match in these days of writing by the page ;...

...trouble heedless readers, for his phraseology itself is as simple as Buuyan's or DeFoe's. Says Lowell, " A diction at once so rich and so homely as his, I...days of writing by the page ; it is like home-spun cloth of gold. The many can not miss its meaning, and only the few can find it. It is the open secret...

...trouble heedless readers, for his phraseology itself is as simple as Banyan's or DeFoe's. Says Lowell, "A diction at once so rich and so homely as his, I...days of writing by the page ; it is like home-spun cloth of gold. The many can not miss its meaning, and only the few can find it. It is the open secret...

...a prominence of obscurity, and seemed to mast-head them there." Emerson's " eye for a fine, telling phrase, that will carry true, is like that of a backwoodsman...choice word from the mud of Cotton Mather himself." " One may think roses as good in their way as cabbages ; though the latter would make a better show...

...philosophical, amusing, imaginative, tender — never didactic." — MACKENZIE. Emerson's Essays. " A diction at once so rich and so homely as his, I...by the page ; it is like homespun cloth-of-gold." — JR LOWELL. \ FICTION. The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines...

...Fuller and Browne — though he does use that abominable word reliable. His eye for a fine, tellmg phrase that will carry true is like that of a backwoodsman...writing by the page ; it is like homespun cloth-of-gold. — JR Lowell, My Stndy Windows, ed. R. Garnett ; pp. 153, 154. In the utilizing of slang, by giving...