 | 1810 - 578 Seiten
...and clean composition of sentence; sweet falling of the clause; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention ; depth of judgment. ' Before you enter on the main subject, endeavour to gain the affection of your... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1806 - 538 Seiten
...began to nourish. This," says he, " grew " speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt " more after words than matter, and more, after " the choiceness...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... | |
 | 1806 - 422 Seiten
...Writers of this stamp may profit by the following pertinent rebuke of Lord Bacon. They " hunt more after words, than matter, and more after " the 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
...which then began to flourish. This grew speedily into an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness...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... | |
 | William Gerard Hamilton - 1808 - 316 Seiten
...clean composition of sentence ; sweet falling of the clause ; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention, depth of judgment. Understand those to whom you are to speak ; consider what they will hear with most... | |
 | William Gerard Hamilton - 1808 - 314 Seiten
...clean composition of sentence ; sweet falling of the clause ; varying an illustration by figures ; weight of matter ; worth, of subject ; soundness of argument ; life of invention, depth of judgment. Understand those to whom you are to speak ; consider what they will hear with most... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 Seiten
...eloquence and copia of speech flourished, and grew " speedily to excess; men began to hunt more after words " than matter; and more after the choiceness...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*... | |
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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 of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration... 
