ESSAY ON STYLE
“ IStyle is the man,” is a saying we often hear,” asserts W. H. D. Rouse in the essay on “Style,” “and like other sueh, it is true, but not all the truth. For style is the manner, as
distinct from the matter; and although —for attraction the manner is more important than the matter, yet it is the matter that matters in the long run. If a pleasing and beautiful style covers no real and notable thought, it is forgotten; but if the thought is there, that remains. Every strong character has his own manner, or at least there is something in the speak-
er’s character that stamps it upon ~ many and various kinds of words, so “ that, with the strongest characters We cannot mistake who the speaker is.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5601, 5 April 1943, Page 4
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132ESSAY ON STYLE Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5601, 5 April 1943, Page 4
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