| John Henry Grafton Grattan - 1925 - 354 páginas
...CONSTRUCTION OF SENTENCES, PERIODS, AND PARAGRAPHS " 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 figures, than... | |
| University of Texas - 1926 - 212 páginas
...Cf. Bacon: "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 of their works with tropes and figures, than... | |
| Michael Demiashkevich - 1926 - 170 páginas
...They pursued what Bacon termed "delicate learning." They hunted "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 of their works with tropes and figures, than... | |
| James Fred McGrew - 1926 - 588 páginas
...to flourish. This grew rapidly 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 of their works with tropes and figures, than... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 páginas
...flourish. 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 of their works with tropes and figures, than... | |
| Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 páginas
...began 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 figures, than... | |
| Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 páginas
...expense of content that he is objecting to. ' 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 of their works with tropes and figures, than... | |
| Desiderius Erasmus - 1974 - 360 páginas
...flourish. 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 of their works with tropes and figures than... | |
| Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 páginas
...began to flourish. This grew steadily 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 figures, than... | |
| Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 páginas
...flourish. 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 of their works with tropes and figures, than... | |
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