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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... "
The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of ... - Page 76
1806
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Monk and Knight: An Historical Study in Fiction, Volume 1

Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - 1891 - 378 pages
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal Bishop, to be in price ; then did Sturmius...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...compo- 5 sition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an illustration by tropes and figures, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment. This is monte potiri, to get the hill ; for no perfect discovery can be made...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ...

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...compo- s sition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an illustration by tropes and figures, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment. This is monte potiri, to get the hill ; for no perfect discovery can be made...
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A Book of Earnest Lives

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1894 - 442 pages
...choiceness ot the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying illustration of their words, with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, or soundness of argument." He usually prepared his speeches with great care, not for the sake of artifices...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 pages
...composition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an illustration by tropes and figures, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment. This is monte potiri, to get the hill ; for no perfect discovery can be made...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 pages
...composition of sentence, sweet falling of the clause, varying an illustration by tropes and figures, weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, and depth of judgment. This is monte potiri, to get the hill; for no perfect discovery can be made...
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Ben Jonsons Poetik und seine Beziehungen zu Horaz

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...
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The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil, & Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius...
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Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum

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...
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Physical and Metaphysical Works: Including the Advancement of Learning and ...

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...
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