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filiz greehe ON ai LITERARY STYLE PT oon aan an ando andover ver correspondent of the independent tf tit yit writes as hg follows J 4 ith lih iti i I 1 I 1 the pleasures of a short resi resl lii ill guilford ct was an acquaintance reformed with fitz theauthor df of marco Bo 1 n meeting him one day in the street he topped stopped me and said 1 I learn that you ara are bare going to be a minister I 1 want you ito vito call upon me I 1 wish to read you a sermon er nion that I 1 deem a model for men me of ayour profession h promised to call and the next mom mob ing I 1 went to the poets house and was shown into the sitting room where aher e the poet bade me welcome he beckoned meloa me toa to a chair and then took down from the shelf a volume and began to read jn sonorous dreamy jonseof litone of voice so 30 peculiar to him the iyo i lume was charters sermons charter was a scotch pr preacher eacher oacher located at wilton vilton scotland 1 the ohp poet read fram a kernion sermon on emhe the ctet ft et 1 I 11 would not live livo always he jie jr ead read until the tears gathered into ills his leyes and coursed down his bis cheeks he unfinished finished the sermon laid aside Idetha tha the book I 1 roand asked how do youl you like ilke ike it very much w my reply said sald he t that sermon is what I 1 call a perfect poem i 1 I L then ventured to remark q charm in my opinion ia its simplicity many of the sentences cep ces I 1 1 atice are composed wholly of idono mone kil kii syllables ull ables 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 thinh think w 0 too said habeck and ram deminds ands me af pf an incident that came under my observation york while othere a 1 letter ietter ater fell into anto my hailds hands which a scotch servant lri irshad zirl irl had iv ritten written tp to her hei lover its ats style charm charmed edme mc mci i it was fairly inimitable 11 wonder how in lii her circumstances in in deife she could have hao acquired so elegant perfect a style I 1 showed the tho letter ietter r ito agomo asom pf af my literary friends annew in new byork and they unanimously a agreed reed was a mod model elof of beauty an andele ele eie ganec ganee I 1 then tool yand sand I 1 went to the house where she was employed and asked ed her how bow low it was that in her humble circum stances in life she had bad acquired a style 0 to o beautiful that the ost most cultivated minds minda could but admire it ir 1 she saide baldt aid ald 1 I iranie came to this coti four foun years jago then I 1 did not know how to read r or Write rite but since then I 1 have learned how to vo read and write b but ut I 1 have haye not i yet learned how fp to s spell eiso eibo so always when whenn I 1 sit down to write a letter letteri I 1 choose those words which are so short and sand simple gimple that I 1 am sure I 1 know how bow them there was the whole see gee sec secret iret scotch girl giri condenses a world of rhetoric into a nutshell nub nut sheil shell simplicity is beauty simplicity is power would that every man could read this anecdote i how many words how much bombast bombas tj would this principle here hera inculcated eliminate from ambita 00 ermons and nd addresses dresse 11 |
