 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 σελίδες
...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...and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the froward conceits, or first words, that offer themselves to us ; but judge of what we invent, and order... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1915 - 264 σελίδες
...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 be comely ; and to doe this with diligence, and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd and... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1923 - 154 σελίδες
...care in ! placing, and ranking jroth matter, and words, that the composition be comely; and to doe this with diligence, and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so iTbe labour' d, and accuratej seeke the best, and be not glad of the forward conceipts, or first words,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1641 - 146 σελίδες
...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 be comely; and to doe this with diligence, and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd, and... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1923 - 426 σελίδες
...to utter something like theirs, which hath an authority above their own." In another place he says: "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... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - 1925 - 346 σελίδες
...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 be comely ; and to doe this with diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour 'd, and... | |
 | Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 380 σελίδες
...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...and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the . . . first words that offer themselves to us, but judge of what we invent, and order what we approve,... | |
 | 1927 - 420 σελίδες
...importance, weight, consequence, of either. Then take care, in placing and (2) grouping, arranging, ranking both matter and words, that the composition...to do this with diligence and often. No matter how (3) slow, prosaic, uninteresting the style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate; seek the best,... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 σελίδες
...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 be comely; and to doe this with diligence, and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labour'd, and... | |
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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... 
