 | William Wirt - 1804 - 120 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...says he, " 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...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 páginas
...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 - 528 páginas
...flourish. This grew speedily into an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round...falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 páginas
...into an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the chtiiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition...falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 páginas
...flourish. This grew speedily into 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, andthe sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 páginas
...speech flourished, and grew " speedily to excess; men began to hunt more after words " than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, " and the...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 páginas
...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*... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 524 páginas
...flourish. This grew speedily into an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round...falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness... | |
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... affectionate study of eloquence and copie 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... 
