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epigram, a short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event; a witty thought tersely expressed.
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three of the greatest periods of English literature, the Elizabethan, the Augustan, the Victorian.
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three English queens, Queen Elizabeth （1558-1603）, Queen Anne （1702-1714） and Queen Victoria （1837-1901）.
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vacuity, emptiness.
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naked precision, conciseness of any expression; stripped to its essential meaning.
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George Herbert （1593-1633）, English poet and clergyman.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo （1803-1882）, American philosopher and essayist.
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niggardly and angular speakers, speakers who are careful and abrupt, not spending words which are at all unnecessary.
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pungent, penetrating; stinging; poignant.
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Brevity is the soul not simply of a jest, but of wit. “Brevity is the soul of wit,” Shakespeare,Hamlet ;conciseness of speech is not only the spirit of a simple joke but also of intellectual humor which implies swift perception of the incongruous and produces laughter by its sudden wisdom.
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superposed ornament, decoration laid upon something else.
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purgation of superfluities, removal of unnecessary elements.
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purple patches of “fine writing,” conspicuous additions of flowery words to cover up the weak spots in one’s writing.
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Ben Jonson （1573? -1637）, English scholar and dramatist.
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Bacon, Sir Francis （1561-1626）, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
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pressly, concisely; precisely; to the point.
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Dante, Alighieri （1265-1321）, Italian poet, author of “The Divine Comedy.”
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rhythmic exigency, pessing need forcing one to use any available word to complete a rhythmic pattern, though the word may not convey one’s exact meaning.
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enervating, having the quality to deprive one of nerve, force or strength.
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Fox, Charles James （1749-1806）, English orator and statesman.
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trepidation, fear.
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We must give our thought its head, etc. Compare this to riding a horse.
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Pedantry, formalism; ostentatiousness in the presentation of knowledge.
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an Irish bull, a grotesque blunder in language; now generally applied to expressions containing apparent congruity but real incongruity of ideas.
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spontaneity, the quality, or state of acting from natural feeling, temperament or disposition, or from a native internal readiness or tendency without constraint.
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