 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 pages
...think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words, 25 and examine the weight of either. Then tak£ care, in placing and ranking both matter and words,...No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad 30 of the forward conceits, or first words, that... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...Discoveries (54 28 and 55 18), in which Jonson expatiates on the duty of self-restraint in composition: "No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate"; and again: "So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing;... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pages
...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...No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ; seek the best, andbe not glad of the forward conceits, or first words, that... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 pages
...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...No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ; seek the best, andbe not glad of the forward conceits, or first words, that... | |
 | William Edward Mead - 1894 - 298 pages
...wished? There would only be more expense with no result, &c." CHAPTER VII. COMPOSITION AND REVISION. " No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate." " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare,... | |
 | William Marvel Nevin - 1895 - 526 pages
...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...this with diligence and often. No matter how slow at first, so it be laboured and accurate, seek the best and be not glad of froward conceits, or first... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 pages
...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...No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate; seek the best, and be not glad of the forward conceits or first words that offer... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - 1898 - 364 pages
...beginning and end than in the midst, and in the end more than in the beginning. B. JONSON, Timber, p. 62. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate. ID., p. 54. Accuracy is seen in the expression. DRYDEN, XII., p. 284. During the present century, the... | |
 | Hugo Reinsch - 1899 - 148 pages
...Ausbildung des Stiles: "He must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing and...style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate." Man soll sich nicht mit den ersten besten Ausdrücken, die einem einfallen, zufrieden geben, sondern... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1899 - 386 pages
...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...comely ; and to do this with diligence and often.' (iv) ' No matter,' he goes on to say, ' how slow the style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate... | |
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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... 
