 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...and to do this with diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the...conceits, or first words that offer themselves to us, bin judge of what we invent, and order what we approve. Repeat often what we have formerly written... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 pages
...excogitate his matter ; then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the...be comely; and to do this with diligence and often. 2. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ; seek the best, and be... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...and excogitate his matter; then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely; and to do this withdiligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...excogitate his matter ; then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then tdke care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the...diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at firbi, so it be labored and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the forward conceits, or first... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...excogitate his matter ; then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the...often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it tje labored and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the forward conceits, or first words that... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1874 - 398 pages
...generis, Ben expatiates on the duty of selfrestraint in composition. He says (inter alia dicta), " No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate;" and again, "So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing ; but good writing brings... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 pages
...and excogitate his matter, then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the...and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the froward conceits, or first words, that offer themselves to us ; but judge of what we invent, and order... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pages
...and excogitate his matter, then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the...and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the froward conceits, or first words, that offer themselves to us ; but judge of what we invent, and order... | |
 | 1910 - 756 pages
...their real connection with the familiar advice of Quintilian, so vigorously rendered by Ben Jonson, "No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ; " or with this, " So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...and examine the weight of either. Then take cure in placing and ranking both matter and w ords, th:U the composition be comely ; and to do this with diligence...and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, eo it be labored and accurate; seek the best, and be not glad of the forward conceits, or flrpt words... | |
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In style, to consider what ought to be written and after what manner, he must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words and examine the weight of either, then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition... 
