help, yea, when he is absent, nay, when he is dead, by his example and memory. So good authors in their style: a strict and succinct style is that where you can take away nothing without loss, and that loss to be manifest.
The grace of metaphor in the following sentence is not more notable than the soundness of its counsel.
Some words are to be culled out for ornament and colour, as we gather flowers to strew houses, or make garlands; but they are better when they grow in our style; as in a meadow, where though the mere grass and greenness delight, yet the variety of flowers doth heighten and beautify.
No modern student of letters will read this without seeing in it an anticipatory tribute to the incomparable style of Mr. Ruskin.
All the definitions of different styles are good, but this is excellent:—
The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence hath almost the fastening and force of knitting and connection; as in stones well squared, which will rise strong a great way without mortar.
The reader of the following extract will be reminded at its close of an ever-memorable deliverance recorded by Boswell.
