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 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.

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 reader of the following extract will be reminded at its close of an ever-memorable deliverance recorded by Boswell.

Periods are beautiful, when they are not too long; for