" "Will you tell me his circumstances?" John explained them in a few words, and with admirable terseness and lucidity; and she nodded comprehensively all the while.

After relating the short and evil history of Jehoram, King of Judah, the account endswith the appalling terseness which often crowns the dramatic climaxes of that matchless writing: "And (he) departed without being desired.

It runs pretty closely, line for line, with the original; because one may love and emulate classical terseness even while despairing to rival it.

And in the fifth hymn the story of St Vincent is given with that peculiar dramatic terseness that you find nowhere except in the English ballad.

In our last Number, we noticed the revolution in our poetry; the transition from the lucid terseness and exquisite polish of Pope and Goldsmith, to the rambling, diffuse, irregular, and imaginative style of composition by which the present era is characterized; and we might have added, that a change equally complete, though diametrically opposite in its tendency, has been silently introduced into our prose.

And in the fifth hymn the story of St Vincent is given with that peculiar dramatic terseness that you find nowhere except in the English ballad.

He shrank from the restraints and humiliations to which the poor and shabbily dressed private tutor is exposedrevealed to us with a persuasive terseness in the pages of The Unclassed, New Grub Street, Ryecroft, and the story of Topham's Chance.