Conciseness in arrangement is preserved if the general classes of facts are clearly laid down, and are not entangled in a promiscuous manner with the subordinate divisions.
The packed line introduced by Milton is of a greater density and conciseness than anything to be found in English literature before it.
The expressive conciseness of his descriptions has served to exercise the diligence of innumerable antiquarians, and to excite the genius and penetration of the philosophic historians of our own times.
These writers passed with the most artful conciseness over the misfortunes of the nation, celebrated its successful valor, and adorned the triumph with many Asiatic trophies, that more properly belonged to the people of Scythia.
Between the conciseness and singleness of "The Ebb-Tide" and the unnecessary length and complexity of some of the Victorians lies a golden mean easier to recognize in specific books than to state abstractedly.
The art of the stage and the art of the story differ radically; the advantage given the play by the conciseness of its spectacle is compensated by the advantage given the story by its more inclusive character and greater flexibility.
Strive for brevity, conciseness and clearness; wage war on all attempts at fine writing.
The form is characterized by an extreme conciseness and brevity and an absolutely impersonal tone.
That is, strive for conciseness and cut out details that do not properly belong in the lead.
But a style of point and affected conciseness will always have its admirers, till the excess of vicious imitation disgusts the world.
Of Tacitus likewise is conciseness a well-known merit.
Regarded from the point of view of artistic form, perhaps nothing of Emerson's is quite so flawless as "Days," a poem which for conciseness and polish is worthy to be called classic.
The Rhodora" has a conciseness and unity too rare in Emerson's poetry, which, beautiful in details, is strangely uneven.
To study clearness and conciseness on a subject like this was not, however, an easy task.
But, while conciseness has been the main object of the present work, I have also endeavoured to tell my story so that it may leave some distinct memories on my readers after they have closed the work.
Fiftiethly, no language in matter of Prayer and Ejaculations to Almighty God is able, for conciseness of expression to compare with it; and therefore, of all other, the most fit for the use of Churchmen and spirits inclined to devotion.
It must date from a considerably later time than the prose Upanishads of the three older Vedas, with the unmethodical treatment and prolixity of which its precision and conciseness are in marked contrast.
That reminds me of another difficulty which we meet with in writing for you composers: I mean the extraordinary brevity and conciseness which you insist upon.
Le Kain, with all the sublimity and conciseness of an irritated Orosmane.
When he first published his Fables, the taste for conciseness and simplicity were so much on the decline, that they were both objected to him as faults.
We enjoy the marvellous conciseness of these monumental words, this power as it were of hewing out the speech in stone.
And yet there was no edge or pungency in his wit, no grace in his whimsicality, no method in his works, no conciseness in his style.
He admires the order and conciseness of the work, and congratulates himself on living in Grotius's time, and sharing in the friendship of so great a man.
He has introduced nothing but facts well supported, or theological discussions delivered with the greatest conciseness and accuracy.
Chinese appeared to them as admirable for the superabundant richness of its vocabulary as for the conciseness of its literary style.
It is the fault of the day to mistake mere eloquence for poetry; whereas, in direct opposition to the conciseness and simplicity of the poet, the talent of the orator consists in making much of a single idea.
He is rightly considered a great master of pure melodic line and a consummate architect, especially in the conciseness and concentration of certain compositions, e.
The Third symphony is a marvel of conciseness and virile life.
Neither do we find in Motley the occasional terse conciseness of Botta,--little epics enclosed in a short sentence.
