The New School was in turn attacked by the "Gothic Society," a school of national Swedish Romanticism, which introduced a cult of the Old Northern spirit of individuality, terseness and power.
There was a brief silence, but the Russian's terseness of speech did not last long.
Almost all the comparisons from Nature in his plays are original, and rather keen and lightning-like than elaborate, often with the terseness of proverbs; The strawberry grows underneath the nettle.
Terseness can be both a beauty and a force; but, in comparison with Greece, how very little feeling for Nature these expressions contain!
Horace is scarcely less remarkable for his terseness than for his ease: the tendency of the octosyllabic metre in its colloquial form is to become slipshod, interminable, in a word unclassical.
The qualities of lucid arrangement, transparency of style, and terseness of language have extended, however, to other branches of authorship; so that the French have presented a fair claim to precedence in the literary art.
An adept in the metrical art, he combines in these mature productions, with terseness of diction and fresh, striking imagery, deep reflection and sympathy with the intellectual questionings and yearnings of the time.
The terseness of the Arab is the result of hard food.
Now, these qualities imply a certain terseness and concentration of style, which is no more a peculiarity of all authoresses than of all authors, and which we should not pronounce to be peculiarly characteristic of Mrs Hemans' poetry.
Robert Abbot's books are conspicuous amongst the productions of his time by their terseness and variety.
The terseness of Pope was gone, and in his imitators only his tinkle remained.
It is written with terseness and vigor, displaying a chaste and powerful imagination, with an admirable command of the appropriate language of poetry.
The terseness of the original has not been removed in the translation.
I have rendered verse 81 very closely to give the reader an idea of the extreme terseness of these verses.
Some idea may be formed by the English reader of the extreme terseness of these verses by attending to the elaborations contained within the parentheses above.
His blank verse in the English Garden has not the majesty of Akenside, the sweetness of Dyer, or the terseness of Armstrong.
His other poems, in which Pindar, Anacreon, and Horace were alternately his models, are distinguished for their conciseness and terseness of style.
The style of Phaedrus is pure and classical, and combines the simple neatness and graceful elegance of the golden age with the vigor and terseness of the silver one.
La Rochefoucauld, expressing a commonplace with the penetrative terseness that made him a master of the apophthegm, pronounced it "not to be enough to have great qualities: a man must have the economy of them.
In a chapter of this work he had explained with his usual matchless tersenessand lucidity Berkeley's theory of vision.
These men exhibit the same condensation of ideas, terseness of expression, depth of thought, acquaintance with the secrets of the heart, which have rendered the historians and orators of antiquity immortal.
Arbuthnot's style is distinguished from that of his contemporaries, even by a greater degree of terseness and conciseness.
The girl had looked up in surprise at the crisp terseness of Susan's reply.
Thomas Sanborn was generous, and cordially enthusiastic, though his words and manner carried the crisp terseness of the busy man whose time is money.
The terseness of Susan's reply and the expression on her face showed that the emphasis on the "Master" was not lost upon her.
This important truth is most happily expressed by the elder Scaliger in prose, and by the younger in verse; the latter extract has an additional claim from the exquisite terseness of its diction, and the purity of its Latinity.
