 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...  Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ... - Page 2edited by - 1908 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Roscoe - 1806 - 546 pages
...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 of their works with " tropes and figures, than after the weight of " matter, worth of subject, soundness of... | |
 | William Roscoe - Papal States - 1806 - 538 pages
...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 illus" tration of their works with tropes and figures, " than after the weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...words than matter; and more after the chtiiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet 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 of argument,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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 of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...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 figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...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 illus" tration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the " weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...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 of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1819 - 598 pages
...it, the " seeking 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 il" lustration of their works with tropes and figures, than, " after the weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | Natural history - 1819 - 556 pages
...it, the " seeking 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 il" lustration of their works with tropes and figures, than " after the weight of matter, worth of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...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 of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
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