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" This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choicencss of the phrase and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration... "
The life and pontificate of Leo the Tenth: In six volumes - Page 73
by William Roscoe - 1806
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The British Spy, Or, Letters to a Member of the British Parliament: Written ...

William Wirt - 1804 - 120 pages
...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,...
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The Letters of the British Spy

William Wirt - 1805 - 144 pages
...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...
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The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on ..., Volume 2

1806 - 422 pages
...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...of eloquence, 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 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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...of eloquence, and copia 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 the chtiiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling...
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The Letters of the British Spy

William Wirt - 1829 - 250 pages
...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,...
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet: With Selections from His ...

Charles Buxton - 1848 - 652 pages
...clearness, force, and earnest feeling. He was not one of those orators, described by Lord Bacon, " that hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures,...
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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...ftudy of eloquence and copia of fpeech, which then began to flourifh. This grew fpeedily to an excefs ; for men began to hunt more after Words than matter; and more after the choicenefs of the Phrafe, and the round and clean compofition of the fentence, and the fweet falling...
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The two books of Francis Bacon: of the proficience and advancement of ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 236 pages
...to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round...composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the • Compare Milton, Par. Lost, v. 486, seq. ; and see Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, p. 157, On the...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...then began to nourish. This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words wan h excel. The way to hasten the breeding of salt-petre, is to forbid the gun, •Wtence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...
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