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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 American Journal of Education - Page 676
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The British Spy, Or, Letters to a Member of the British Parliament: Written ...

William Wirt - 1804 - 120 pages
...languages, a taste for the fulness of the Ciceronian manner, and hence the still prevalent error of hunting more after the choiceneSs of the phrase and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with trop'es...
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The Letters of the British Spy

William Wirt - 1805 - 144 pages
...ness of the Ciceronean manner ; and 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*' on of the sentence, and the sweet fallings of " the clauses, and the- varying and ittustration...
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The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, Volume 4

William Roscoe - 1806 - 538 pages
...eloquence, and copia of speech which "then began to nourish. This," says he, " grew " speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt " more after words than matter,...the round and " clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet " falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of their works with tropes...
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The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on ..., Volume 2

1806 - 422 pages
...polished 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...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...of eloquence, and cupia 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, andthe sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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 more after the chtiiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling...
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Essays on Professional Education

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 pages
...England, " an affected " study of eloquence and copia of speech flourished, and grew " speedily to excess; 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 illus" tration of their works with tropes...
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Essays on Professional Education

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 572 pages
...so well describes, when " men hunt more after " words than matter, and more after the choice" ness of the phrase, and the round and clean " composition of the sentence, and the sweet " falling of the clauses, and the varying and illus" tration of the whole with tropes...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 524 pages
...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...
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