“Do not imagine for a moment that I advocate the neglect of elocutionary graces.”

“Its relatively stable set of themes, motifs, generic forms, and elocutionary devices invites an inclusive study that, Gordon Braden rightly notes, eludes our grasp.”

“Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting.”