 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of suhject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth...judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorins, the Portugal hishop, to he in price. Then did Stunnins spend such infinite and curious pains... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 628 pages
...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...than after the weight of matter, -worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually bestowed much care in preparation ; not in embellishing the style,... | |
 | Charles Buxton - 1848 - 652 pages
...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...tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, 1819. CHARACTER OF HIS SPEECHES. 87 worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually bestowed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...compofition of the fentence, and the fweet falling of the claufes, and the varying and illuftration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of fubjeft, foundnefs of argument, life of invention, or depth of Judgment. Then grew the flowing and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Buxton - 1855 - 862 pages
...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...than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually bestowed much care in preparation ; not in embellishing the style,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1858 - 914 pages
...speech. This enmity speedily ended in producing the opposite extreme ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of...and the round and clean composition of the sentence, than after, the weight of matter, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then... | |
 | William Wirt - 1832 - 280 pages
...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...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Mr 's temper and habits lead him to the swelling, stately manner of Bolinghroke but either from the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...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...round and clean composition of the sentence, and the svveet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illusO v & tration of their works with tropes and... | |
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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... 
