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The Cultus Of The Adjective

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Day
25
Month
February
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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iïverybody nowadays in prose or poetry claps on an adjective to every noun. It degrades the adjective and enervates the noun. Then, too, there is a host of vulgar overdressed people introduced into our conipany, wbom we, the old fashioned adjectives, hardly recognize - "strenuous," "intense," "weird, " "fiery, " "sympathetic, " "splendid," "secure," "naive," "impressive, " "poignant" - mostly attached, too, to the wrong nouns. There are too many adjectives, and they carry too much sail, like dalilia, "bedecked, órnate and gay." I noticed, as an instance the other way, a criticism in a French review the other day of the academician sea captain who calis himself Pierre Loti, whose style is so defecated (I believe tbat is the term invented by the Postlethwayte school - you rerneniber Postlethwayte?) that he seldoni or never uses an adjective more startling than "good," "bad, " "green," "red," "dark," "light," and so on, and yet so orders his sentence that tho adjecjive shines out like a rose on a brier bush.

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