It is as useless to contend against the purist fad as against the holiness fake.
The remarkable thing about thispurist fad is that all the Podsnaps wear pants--the ladies are not on tenter-hooks all the time lest something be said or written that will "bring a blush to the cheek of a young person.
The above-quoted writer in the New York Press is a purist in vocabulary, no less than in grammar.
The fact is that three-fourths of the English language would crumble away before a purist analysis, and we should be left without words to express the commonest and most necessary ideas.
Titian's slightest bits of background, from one of the frescoes in the little chapel behind St. Antonio, at Padua, which may be compared more conveniently than any of his more elaborate landscapes with the purist work from Raphael.
But, on the other hand, it is to be noted that entire scorn of this purist ideal is the sign of a far greater weakness.
The most rigorous purist could find no fault in a man who takes for his model the simplicity of the thirteenth century, and in whose manner and address a corresponding simplicity and sweetness are ever manifest.
The language is alive and growing and extending on all sides, to the grief of the purist and the pedant, who prefer a dead language that they can dissect at will, and that has come to the end of its usefulness.
The purist painter then proceeds to express his invincible reluctance to study the subject from the side of life; models he had carefully avoided, because he feared that a single glance at nature would destroy the whole conception.
A purist in language might be moved to protest that this proclamation was plainly tautological, because it is the essential quality of every novelty to be new.
He was, as we have said, the typical representative of the purist ideal.
More alive to the naturalism and technical merits of painting than to subtleties of feeling and expression, they are neither conscious of the aims nor aware of the principles of purist art.
Among a generation whose faith has been remodelled, whose social and intellectual habits have been entirely revolutionised, the restoration of purist painting would be a mockery.
In purist nomenclature it has been denominated paganism, but it seems to consist of paganism and classicism.
He was an acute rhetorician, and a puristin language.
In point of language he was a purist like Augustus; but unlike him he mingled archaisms with his diction.
This Madonna has not, so far as I know, been engraved before, and it is one of the most characteristic of the Purist school.
He need not be a purist in his use of language, but may use such foreign phrases and modern idioms as are current in good society, aiming only at simplicity and clearness.
The 'Galateo' professes to be a guide for gentlemen in social intercourse, and the minute rules laid down would satisfy the most exacting purist of the present century.
The classical purist cannot get rid either of the general history of mankind or of the more enlarged view of the history of art merely by shutting his eyes to both of them.
I had a desire to quarrel finally and for all time with the reputable old gentleman, whose name I no longer needed, and whose fame as an excise purist would now be getting in my way.
He was a purist at law, but he was a puristin life also, and not because the flush of youth had gone and his feet were on the path which leads into the autumn of a man's days.
In the end, indeed, even so ardent a purist as Richard Grant White adopted it, as he did /to placate/.
And nine times out of ten, a few pages further on, I have found the enchanted purist erring himself.
I am not a purist in cigars, but at home I have smoked a good many and seldom with safety one that cost less than ten cents, straight.
But then I am not a purist in cathedral architecture.
Plate 27 is sufficiently characteristic of the purist mediaeval landscape, though there is somewhat more leaning to naturalism than is usual at the period.
If no other reason, woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power.
It will be wholly impossible for you to retain the tranquillity of temper and felicity of faith necessary for noble purist painting, unless you are actively engaged in promoting the felicity and peace of practical life.
I just now referred to the landscape by John Bellini in the National Gallery as one of the six best existing of the purist school, being wholly felicitous and enjoyable.
The purist was too intent upon his design of fishing another man's pool once down, without loss of time, to look about him carefully.
They loved him none the more, of course, and spun, prawned, and wormed as before, honestly envying just a little the purist whose fly undoubtedly often justified his claims.
The purist did not trouble to reply in words; he merely pointed to the fly left in the mouth of the fish.
There was a touch of suspicion, not to say alarm, in the look of amazement with which the purist received the shrieks of laughter which simultaneously burst from the other two.
Then Grey exploded again, and the purist looked from one to the other.
The Purist purized, a literary satire in dialogue.
The Lexiphanes and A Purist Purized, satirizing the pedants and euphuists of Lucian's day, almost defy translation, and they must be accepted at best as an effort to give the general effect of the original.
