 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 clear composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration...  The Letters of the British Spy - Page 128by William Wirt - 1813 - 186 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1805 - 144 pages
...which -Lord Verulam pronounces on the writers posterior to the reformation of the church " Lu" ther," says he, " standing alone, against the " church of...hence the " still prevalent error of hunting more afterwords "" than matter ; and more after the choiceness of " the phrase and the round and clean compositi*'... | |
 | Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...diction. Writers of this stamp may profit by the following pertinent rebuke of Lord Bacon. They " hunt more after words, than matter, and more after " the...choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean com" position of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the claus" es, and the varying and illustration... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Abolitionists - 1848 - 646 pages
...clearness, force, and earnest feeling. He was not one of those orators, described by Lord Bacon, " that hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures,... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Antislavery movements - 1855 - 862 pages
...clearness, force, and earnest feeling. He was not one of those orators, described by Lord Bacon, " that hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures,... | |
 | William Thompson Read - Delaware - 1870 - 596 pages
...introduced the study of the dead languages and a taste for the Ciceronian manner, and hence the prevailing error of hunting more after words than matter, and more after the choicencss of the phrase and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Christian biography - 1883 - 410 pages
...and with appropriate illustration. He was not one of those speakers who, in Bacon's phrase, " hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying illustration of their words, with tropes and figures,... | |
 | 1906 - 466 pages
...the volubility of application." He condemned the Ciceronians of the Eenaissance, who "began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clear composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Europe - 1906 - 422 pages
...the volubility of application." He condemned the Ciceronians of the Renaissance, who "began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clear composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Classical literature - 1923 - 74 pages
...own sake, as with the Italian scholars of the fifteenth century "who," Bacon tells us, "began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clear composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses and the varying and illustration... | |
 | Alexander Magnus Drummond - Elocution - 1925 - 322 pages
...the volubility of application.' He condemned the Ciceronians of the Renaissance who 'began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clear composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of clauses, and the varying and illustration... | |
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