...that it presents. Try substituting synonyms for various words, and see what happens to your prose: The one word for the one thing, the one thought amid...to the single mental presentation or vision within. In that perfect justice, over and above the many contingent and removable beauties with which beautiful...

...and turns of expression, there is but one — one form, one mode — to express what I want to say." rs no sooner trod upon, but they fell through In that perfect justice, over and above the many contingent and removable beauties with which beautiful...

...of alien things, the us£- The one word for the one thing, the one ful, the agreeable, what not? — thought, amid the multitude of words, terms, that might just do: the problem world without, to become, by sympathetic of style was there ! — the unique word, selection, a part...

...exclaims Pater, "the one thought, amid 1 Letter to a Young Clergyman, Works, ed. Scott, Vol. VHI, p. 199. the multitude of words, terms, that might just do:...the single mental presentation or vision within." But Pater continually insists that the quest for the right word must be carried through all the interrelations...

...phrase." I would define it more nearly if I could. Walter Pater talks about it, — over my head : " The one word for the one thing, the one thought, amid...words, terms, that might just do : the problem of style is there." And there it is likely to remain. I would gladly sit all day staring at a phrase, mumbling...

...sympathetically expounded in Pater's " Essay on Style," of the mot juste, the "unique," the "absolute" word — " the one word for the one thing, the one thought, amid...the multitude of words, terms, that might just do." This somewhat fanciful belief, when it becomes an academic idolatry, is (in Prof. Raleigh's word) "the...

...represent adequately a particular thought. A great critic has said that Flaubert ' searched and found the unique word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, essay,...the single mental presentation or vision within.' To understand his standpoint might seem to make his disagreement with George Sand an easy prediction,...

...and turns of expression, there is but one — one form, one mode — to express what I want to say. The one word for the one thing, the one thought, amid...that might just do: the problem of style was there 1 — the unique word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, essay, or song, absolutely proper to the single...

...dramatic enactment of Pater's own ideal of lexical precision, fidelity to an author's psychic state. "The problem of style was there! — the unique word,...absolutely proper to the single mental presentation of the vision within."9 Pater never seems to have doubted that language was capable of the required...

...style'.4' He explains his conception of style with reference to Flaubert who laboured in his writing for 'the one word for the one thing, the one thought amid the multitude of words, terms, that might just do.'48 This labour was born of the conviction that 'there was a certain absolute and unique manner...