I found it heavy, I confess, though in the mechanical part of the writing-the compositional savoir faire-there is an advance.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
We knew the figures well while they lasted and had with them the happiest relation, but without doing justice to their truth of outline, their felicity of character and force of expression and function, above all to the compositional harmony in which they moved.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James
This simple, compositional device emphasizes the effect of her pensive expression.
"The Madonna in Art"
Estelle M. Hurll