 ... affectionate study of eloquence and " copia"f of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition...  The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth - Seite 239von William Roscoe - 1846Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wirt - 1804 - 120 Seiten
...languages, a taste for the fulness of the Ciceronian manner, and hence the still prevalent error of hunting more after the choiceneSs of the phrase and the round...and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with trop'es and figures,... | |
 | William Wirt - 1805 - 144 Seiten
...ness of the Ciceronean manner ; and hence the " still prevalent error of hunting more afterwords "" than matter ; and more after the choiceness of " the phrase and the round and clean compositi*' on of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of " the clauses, and the- varying and ittustration... | |
 | 1806 - 422 Seiten
...polished diction. Writers of this stamp may profit by the following pertinent rebuke of Lord Bacon. They " hunt more after words, than matter, and more after...choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean com" position of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the claus" es, and the varying and illustration... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 Seiten
...and cupia of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily into an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after...and the round and clean composition of the sentence, andthe sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 Seiten
...affected " study of eloquence and copia of speech flourished, and grew " speedily to excess; men began to hunt more after words " than matter; and more after...sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the " weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 572 Seiten
...so well describes, when " men hunt more after " words than matter, and more after the choice" ness of the phrase, and the round and clean " composition...sweet " falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of the whole with tropes and figures, " than after the weight of matter, worth of sub*... | |
 | William Wirt - 1829 - 250 Seiten
...taste for the fulness of " the Ciceronean manner; and hence the still " prevalent errour of hunting more after "words than matter; and more after the...clean composition of the sentence, and the "sweet fallings of the clauses, and the vary" ing and illustration of their works with "tropes and figures,... | |
 | 1819 - 556 Seiten
...contemptible, than " the hunting after " words more than matter," as Lord Bacou expresses it, the " seeking more after the choiceness of the phrase, and " the...sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and il" lustration of their works with tropes and figures, than " after the weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1819 - 598 Seiten
...contemptible, than " the hunting after " words more than matter," as Lord Bacon expresses it, the " seeking more after the choiceness of the phrase, and " the...sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and il" lustration of their works with tropes and figures, than, " after the weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | 1830 - 592 Seiten
...learning which Bacon so beautifully describes, as consisting " more in hunting after words than matter ; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round...falling, of the clauses, and the varying and illustration with tropes and figurcst than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
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