Lectures On Language Amd Linguistic Method in the School ..
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The inevitable result of this view was that men strove after eloquence and elegance of expression, and style governed. Now to cultivate style for style's sake is the Pharisaism of the intellect. The great masters of style, VI.] LANGUAGE AS LITERATURE. 83 Sophocles, Euripides, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, did not do this. With them, as with all writers who live in the esteem of generations, thought comes first, and style is nothing more than the apt and felicitous expres- sion of prior thought. S...tyle is not to be compared to the vesture which covers a man's body, but rather to the native and natural covering of the beasts of the field. The play and elasticity of the close-fitting lion's hide is very different from any vestment with which Poole covers the lion's master. In fact, a beautiful thought and a beautiful expression either occur as one in a man's mind, or the thought remains as a vague possibility or anticipation only (on the plane of feeling), until it finds fitting words. At this point a man, to use the words of Montaigne, is only "licking the formless embryo of thought." When the thought is born, it is born with its natural vestment.
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