Monday, June 19, 2023
Gibbon's Style
John Ruskin, letter to Thomas Carlyle (June 23, 1878):
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I am going to stigmatise Gibbon's as the worst style of language ever yet invented by man—its affectation and platitude being both consummate. It is like the most tasteless water-gruel, with a handful of Epsom salts strewed in for flowers, and served with the airs of being turtle.
