The confessedly spurious Epistles differ widely in style from the seven Epistles, and betray the same hand which interpolated the seven Epistles.
I have already pointed out that the theology and the style of these fragments generally are exactly what the notices of Hippolytus and Tertullian would lead us to expect in Melito.
The question therefore is narrowed to this issue, whether the Epistle of Polycarp bears evidence in its style and diction or in its modes of thought or in any other way, that it was written by the same hand which penned the Ignatian letters.
I write this notwithstanding that our author, following Cureton, has expressed a different opinion respecting thestyle of the Curetonian Letters.
The whole style of the author is simple and helpful, and the book ought to be welcome everywhere and preserved for frequent reconsideration.
The style of each narrative is picturesque and easy, and all may read these pages with pleasure and profit.
Miss Harris's style is fascinating, and there is a freshness in this book of the dew and the wind of springtime.
An imitative style and tone, being careful in the use of the emphatic pause.
That peculiar style which is best adapted to impart instruction, laying special stress on the important idea.
Should the voice agree in style with the different varieties of prose?
Should all persons use the same tones of voice and style in reading selections?
A style and tone which are entirely imitative in character.
That the editorial promises are rich the following extracts sufficiently prove:-- "The news of English we tell the latest, writ in perfectstyle and earliest.
Of the style it would now be superfluous to speak.
This Prince was still beloved; it was wished that a style of life suitable to his age and dignity should at length supersede the errors of the past, and justify the love of his subjects.
It was not without mortification that the King observed the Queen's adoption of this style of dress: she was never so lovely in his eyes as when unadorned by art.
The style of the group of buildings to which they drew near was not entirely unfamiliar to Considine, for he had passed one or two similar farms, belonging to Cape Dutchmen, on his trip from the sea-coast to the interior.
The leading men there, foreseeing the advantage that would result so their cause by such a style of repressing public opinion, advised those around them to keep quiet and be true to their principles.
They were in a cottage now, of the style familiarly known as "wattle and dab," which was rather picturesque than permanent, and suggestive of simplicity.
The visitor walked straight off the veldt, or plain, into the drawing-room--if we may sostyle it.
Besides, he was known throughout the kingdom for his eccentric general orders and manifestoes that were invariably couched in a lapidary style a la Savoroff.
Courting in the Romeo and Juliet style is always absurd, particularly in this little hole of a place.
The combination of realistic styleand romantic substance is quite piquant.
Behind her, and looking over her shoulder, stood a gigantic young man in a light suit, with a scornful look, and moustaches after the style affected by Kaiser Wilhelm.
For some time I have been noticing the advanced style of writing in the two or three "Down East" agricultural papers that come under my notice.
They present every phase of railroad life, and are written in an easy and simple style that both interests and instructs.
The style and form of the paper are now exactly what they should be.
Bartnyansky, who must spend at least fifty thousand to judge by the style he lived in, had made an interesting comment the day before on that subject.
He's in the samestyle as the drawing room and that's why it is he's so often here.
Zhivahov owed three hundred thousand, and hadn't a farthing to bless himself with, and he lived, and in style too!
The tone of her dark dress (Anna immediately observed and appreciated the fact) was in perfect harmony with her style of beauty.
Levin read the second volume of Homiakov's works, and in spite of the elegant, epigrammatic, argumentative style which at first repelled him, he was impressed by the doctrine of the church he found in them.
A pretty maid in an apron might be even more agreeable, perhaps; but for your severe monastic style it does very well.
That's in the same style as, 'that's a thing I can't endure!
And hasn't this aneroid barometer got cards and spades over the old-style models?
In the true native style he was expected to address them on their own level, pacing back and forth the while.
Finally, the style of the story is indissolubly wedded to its matter.
I doubt that it will ever be studied for its style in our new Schools of Literature; a devilish cunning if often there, but it leaves a smack of the pharmacopoeia.
Newman achieved a useful purging; the stylethat remained was ready for Flaubert.
The Kipling-Wells style of swift, shouldering, button-holing writing has accustomed readers and critics alike to a straight course and a rapid tempo.
The other is that the style of the writing in the book reduces the dreiserian manner to absurdity, and almost to impossibility.
Worse, there are no charms of style to mitigate the rigours of these vast steppes and pampas of narration.
Keeping their poles apart they often meet half-way; and in matters of style as well as judgment tinge and tend to be transfused into each other, so that in some pages we have to look to the signature to be sure of the writer.
Carlyle closes with the famous passage from Richter, one of those which indicate the influence in styleas in thought of the German over the Scotch humorist.
It is not in man to determine what hisstyle shall be, if it is to be his own.
Regarding his rank as a writer there is little or no dispute: it is admitted that the irregularities and eccentricities of his styleare bound up with its richness.
None of you will ever forget that bold glowingstyle of his, flowing free from his untutored soul, full of metaphors (though he knew not what a metaphor was), with all manner of potent words.
To which Carlyle answered with characteristic pride, "I have no idea of dying in the Arcadian shepherd's style for the disappointment of hopes which I never seriously entertained, and had no right to entertain seriously.
But in his earliest substantial volume, the Life of Schiller, there is nothing either obscure in style or mystic in thought.
Froude's panegyrics are in style and tone worthy of that put into the mouth of Pericles by Thucydides, with which the modern biographer closes his only too faithful record.
Carlyle's style is not that of Addison, of Berkeley, or of Helps; its peculiarities are due to the eccentricity of an always eccentric being; but it is neither affected nor deliberately imitated.
For example: A conspicuous evidence of bad style that has persisted through numberless changes in fashion, is the over-dressed and over-trimmed head.
In men's clothes the opposite rule should be followed since good style in men's clothes is unchanging.
My doings have been noted; the admirable qualities of my style have drawn attention; I'm looked upon as one of the coming men!
This notice was a consummate example of the flippant style of attack.
I've never really tried my hand at that style yet; I shouldn't wonder if I managed it brilliantly.
She lacks tact, is straightforward to bluntness and has not any style about her and little or no idea of company manners, but she is never coarse nor rude.
You want to get among the upper tens, but you haven't got style enough about you for that.
I don't want her to learn to dress in a stylethat she cannot honestly afford.
Where dress and style are passports Annette may be excluded, but where brain and character count Annette will gain admittance.
Until this is done there seems to be no hope that the people will renounce the wholesome discomfort of the style of executions endeared to them by memories and associations of the tenderest character.
The form of salutation and the style and tide of address would have to be settled definitively and with precision.
And then he addresses himself in his finest styleto console his correspondent, regarding some of the deepest and most painful incidents of her rare and genuine Christian experience.
In its style William Guthrie's one little book is clear, spare, crisp, and curt.
The plot is well conceived and carried out, the style easy and the characters likable.
He succeeded in October in getting a few of the Metis to seize the highway at St. Norbert, some nine miles south of Fort Garry, and in the true style of a Paris revolt, erected a barricade or barrier to stop all passers-by.
He introduced a style of boat used on the rivers of New York, his native State.
Wellsted thus describes the place: “There are some handsome houses in Ibrah; but the style of building is quite peculiar to this part of Arabia.
The style of head-dress called ‘taylasan’ covered his turban, which was white as his robes, and a short staff supported his left hand.
In very much the same style was Tode introduced at one of the grand hotels the next morning.
We haven't anything in the style his clothes are cut.
Never discuss the color of her hair, or the style of its arrangement, her smile, her gait, so that she can hear every word of it.
May I be allowed to ask who invented the torturing style of cars from Philadelphia to New York, with wooden panels where windows should be, and seats divided off into spaces, narrow as a bigot's creed?
What do I care for the "new style of bonnets," when I have found it so much pleasanter to stroll out without any covering for the head?
This style of handsome man would no more think of carrying a cane, than he would use a parasol to keep the sun out of his eyes.
One day I heard this remark, coming out of church where that style of sermon was preached: "Well--what has all that to do with me?
The Athenians, however, were not in the humour to listen to thatstyle of argument.
This change of view is marked by a change of style in writing.
The style here is suggestive of notes ({upomnemata}) unexpanded.
