 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Civilization, Medieval - 1888 - 870 pages
...learning then became characterized by an affectionate study of eloquence : men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of...figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subjoct, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the learning of... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...study and copie of speech. . . . This grew speedily to an excess, for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment." Nor is there less aptitude in his characteristic protest against the degenerate tendency of mere specialisation... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - English literature - 1889 - 196 pages
...speech. . . . 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...soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of jndgement." — Of the Advancement of Learning. Book I. Hohenstiel-Schwangau, and Red Cotton Night-Cap... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...4. 2, 3) : " 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...argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. . . . Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Yet,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English prose literature - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Christian biography - 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 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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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... 
