 | 1900 - 570 pages
...ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely ; and to doe this with diligence and ofien. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd and accurate ; seeke the best, and be not glad of the forward conceipts, or first words, that... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...think, 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 to do this with diligence and often. No matter bow slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate : seek the best, and be not glad ol forward... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1907 - 476 pages
..."must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words and examine the weight of either ... no matter how slow the style be at first, so it be...conceits, or first words that offer themselves to us . . . Repeat often what we have formerly written."5 Be not "forward 1 Bartholomew Fair, V. 3. *Dcvil... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...care, in placing and ranking both matter and 2o words, that the composition be comely ; and to doe this with diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd and accurate ; seeke the best, and be not glad of the forward conceipts, or first words, that... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...placing and ranking both matter and , . scnbena1 »o words, that the composition be comely; and to doe this with diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd and accurate ; seeke the best, and be not glad of the forward conceipts, or first words, that... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 388 pages
...take care, in placing and ranking both matter and ao words, that the composition be comely; and to doe this with diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd and accurate ; seeke the best, and be not glad of the forward conceipts, or first words, that... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 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 composition be comely ; and to doe this with diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd and... | |
 | John James Munro - 1909 - 626 pages
...genere, Ben expatiates on the duty of self-restraint in composition. He says (inter alia dicta), " No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd and accurate ;" and again, " So that the summe of all is, ready writing makes not good writing... | |
 | 1910 - 768 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,... | |
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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... 
