Epistolary correspondence should not be carried on in a studied or affected style, but the language should flow from the pen, as naturally and as easily as it would from the mouth.
He had nothing of Willoughby's epistolary creative power, which, causing his family and friends to exclaim: "How like him that is!
Was it her meaning that women would not have much taste for his epistolary correspondence?
This day, the hero of the Nile received a letter from General Sir John Acton, transmitting the congratulations of the King and Queen of Naples; to which he returned the following most elegant epistolary acknowledgment, by the Culloden.
Once back in that epistolary island, he wrote interminable letters to Golly.
His advocates admit that they are to be judged rather by the rules of oratorical than epistolary composition.
Though much too laboured and affected, they are evidently the original type of the French epistolary school, including those in England who have formed themselves upon it.
This epistolary art was always cultivated by the Italians, first in the Latin tongue, and afterwards in their own.
Delightful it would have been to Walter, in that second effervescence of his first passion, had the penmanship of the fair writer been barely legible, and her epistolary talent not absolutely below the lowest degree of mediocrity.
This will appear from a sketch of her life, and still more from specimens to be exhibited of her own epistolary writing.
The Baron's intentions are sufficiently clear and explicit, nor are we now engaged in the work of correcting his English epistolary style.
This epistolary chat, though agreeable, is by no means satisfactory.
I am no epistolary politician or newsmonger; and as to sentiments, a variety of novelties and follies has entirely dissipated them.
Or an example may be taken from Tegnér's epistolary style.
Extract from an epistolary poem to Dryden, occasioned by the death of the Earl of Abingdon, by William Pitts, ib.
Life of Plutarch by, xvii, 1 extract fromEpistolary Poem to, xviii, 218 Letters of, ib.
The desk bore traces of recent epistolary activity, and was littered with the printed matter of Aunt Plessington's movements.
He began with an amiability that had no fault, except, perhaps, that it was a little forced after the epistolary strain in the study, and his welcome to Marjorie was more than cordial.
It is hard for the author to stick to the point at every moment without violating the casual and discursive tone that the epistolary style demands.
But a series of letters written by one person only is very likely to become monotonous; and more is usually gained than lost by assigning the epistolary role successively to different characters.
Moongarr Bill's epistolarystyle was bald in its directness.
Likewise, the slapdash epistolary style of the MS.
As to his literary remains, they must be very considerable, but, except his epistolary correspondence, more or less unfinished.
The epistolary form of narration is adopted, and the result is not especially noteworthy.
This little epistolary tale of heroic struggle for one's work and one's love, was read in all parts of the English-speaking world.
One day in June, when all was looking dark, Schiller received a packet containing an epistolary greeting, an embroidered letter-case and four portrait sketches.
To the worldly-wise such a perfervid sight-draft upon the bank of love, made after a few weeks of epistolary acquaintance, will no doubt seem a little risky.
Among the ladies celebrated for their epistolary style in the seventeenth century were Madame de Maintenon, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, Madame de Bussy-Lameth, and above all Madame de Boislandry.
Of all modes of expression is not the epistolary mode that in which man’s instinct for using language “to disguise his thought” is most likely to exercise itself?
But even at that period it was only a quite exceptional nature like that of Charles Lamb which adequately expressed itself in epistolary form.
And his epistolary good-byes were odd mixtures of business with sentiment.
Really, my poor dear mother, this ought to be understood between us once for all; otherwise, I shall have to renounce all epistolary intercourse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epistolary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
