Style Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Style


Our style should be like a skeine of silke, to be carried and found by the right thred, not ravel’d and perplex’d; then all is a knot, a heape. —Ben Jonson	1
Gibbon’s style is too uniform; he writes in the same flowing and pompous style on every subject. He is like Christie, the auctioneer, who says as much of a ribbon as of a Raphael. —Richard Porson	2