 ... of the literary calling. There was no end to the trouble that he devoted to matters which most authors are only too glad to leave to the care and experience of their publisher. He could not rest...  TIME - Page 77by E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885Full view - About this book
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...could not rest until the lines were level to a hair's breadth, and the punctuation correct to a comma; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every sentence flowed like running water.* I remember the pleasure with which he showed us a communication from one of the * Macaulay writes to... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 422 pages
...could not rest until the lines were level to a hair's breadth, and the punctuation correct to a comma ; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every sentence flowed like running water.* I remember the pleasure with which he showed us a communication from one of the readers in Mr. Spottiswoode's... | |
 | sir George Otto Trevelyan (2nd bart.) - 1876 - 508 pages
...could not rest until the lines were level to a hair's breadth, and the punctuation correct to a comma ; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every sentence flowed like running water.1 I remember the pleasure with which he showed us a communication from one of the readers in... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...could not rest until the lines were level to a hair's breadth, and the punctuation correct to a comma; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every sentence flowed like running water. I remember the pleasure with which he showed us a communication from one of the readers in Mr Spottiswoode's... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...could not rest until the lines were level to a hair's breadth, and the punctuation correct to a comma; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every sentence flowed like running water.' Excellence is not matured in a day. Montesquieu, in allusion to one of his works, says to a correspondent,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - English literature - 1883 - 378 pages
...could not rest until the lines were level to a hair's breadth, and the punctuation correct to a comma ; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every sentence flowed like running water." During the later years of his life, Macaulay sent articles on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Milton.), Alexander Mackie - English language - 1884 - 216 pages
...could not rest until the lines were level to a hair's breadth, and the punctuation correct to a comma ; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence and every sentence flowed like running water. " (Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay, p. 505. ) /. 14. — There is nothing to take note of here, but the... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1886 - 428 pages
...the expression. " He could not rest," it was said, " until the punctuation was correct to a comma ; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every sentence flowed like clear running water." But, above all things, he strove to make his style perfectly lucid and immediately... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...of the expression. " He could not rest," it was said, "until the punctuation was correct to a comma; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every sen-tence flowed like clear running water." But, above all things, he strove to make his style perfectly lucid and immediately... | |
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