[3]
I will, however, postpone my demonstration
of what I regard as the best method of narration
till I come to deal with narration as required in the
courts.1 In the meantime, it will be sufficient to
urge that it should be neither dry nor jejune (for
why spend so much labour over our studies if a bald
and naked statement of fact is regarded as sufficiently
expressive?); nor on the other hand must it be
tortuous or revel in elaborate descriptions, such
as those in which so many are led to indulge
by a misguided imitation of poetic licence.
1 Book IV. chap. ii.
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