 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 American Journal of Education - Seite 676herausgegeben von - 1858Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 Seiten
...study of eloquence and copie of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter...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 tropes and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 Seiten
...study of eloquence and copie of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter...and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the svveet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illusO v & tration of their works with tropes... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 Seiten
...to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess : for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; 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 of their works with tropes and... | |
 | William Thompson Read - 1870 - 590 Seiten
...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 choiceness...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 tropes and... | |
 | William Thompson Read - 1870 - 596 Seiten
...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 of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and... | |
 | 1871 - 832 Seiten
...question a wise man 1 Lord Bacon criticising the literature introduced by the Reformation, says : " Men began to hunt more after words than matter, and...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 tropes and... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 Seiten
...to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, aud the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 Seiten
...to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; 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 of their works with tropes and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 Seiten
...of eloquence, and copia of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily into an excess : for men began to hunt more after words than matter...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 tropes and... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 410 Seiten
...style 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,... | |
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