 | Hugo Reinsch - 1899 - 148 pages
...composition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an iltitstration by tropes and fignres, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment" (Xotae dr/mini Sti. Albani etc. Dise. IX. 226). Massgebend für die Richtigkeit... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 pages
...more after wordes than matter ; and more after the choisenesse of the phrase, and the round and cleane composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus^ tration of their workes with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...composition, sweet cadence of periods, the use of 1 tropes and figures, than after weight of matter, dignity of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew into esteem the flowing and watery vein o\ Orosius,* the Portugal bishop; then did Sturmius bestow... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 606 pages
...composition, sweet cadence of periods, the use of tropes and figures, than after weight of matter, dignity of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew into esteem the flowing and watery vein of Orosius,6 the Portugal bishop; then did Sturmius bestow... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
...sweet and apt, I do assure you." — Loi-e's Labor's Lost, v. 1 (1598). " Men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment; taking liberty to coin and frame new terms of art to express their own sense, and to avoid circnit... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 462 pages
...Lost, v. 1 (1598). " Men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choicenesa of the phrase, and the round and clean composition...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment; taking liberty to coin and frame new terms of art to express their own sense, and to avoid circuit... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1902 - 628 pages
...than matter ; Its denunci- & aiion of mere more after the choiceness of the phrase and the word-ntudy. round and clean composition of the sentence, and the...clauses, and the varying and illustration of their words with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1902 - 440 pages
...composition, sweet cadence of periods, the use of tropes and figures, than after weight of matter, dignity of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew into esteem the flowing and watery vein of Orosius, " the Portugal bishop; then did Sturmius bestow... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 168 pages
...Carlyle's views of art that they should be quoted : " Men began to hunt more after words than matter; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round...judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Ossorius the Portugal bishop, to be in price." 93 : 7. They actually and in themselves are music. Allan... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1904 - 298 pages
...affectionate study and copia of speech... This grew speedily to an excess, for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness...soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment1.' The ever-recurring debate between the claims of form and substance is with us now in these... | |
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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... 
