 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 430 pages
...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...and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the fonvard conceits, or first words that offer themselves to us, but judge of what we invent, and order... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...his matter; then chixise his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing nml ady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmit Ko matter how slow the style be at first, so It be labored and accurate; seek the best, and be not... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1889 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 206 pages
...that Jonson should insist with some excess of urgency on the necessity for care and labour in writing. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be...and accurate : seek the best, and be not glad of the froward conceits or first words that offer themselves to us ; but judge of \vhat we invent, and order... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 pages
...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 pages
...excogitate his matter, then choose his words, 25 and examine the weight of either. Then tak£ 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 30 of the forward conceits, or first words, that... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English prose literature - 1892 - 228 pages
...excogitate his matter, then choose his words, - 25 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 30 of the forward conceits, or first words, that... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...Discoveries (54 28 and 55 18), in which Jonson expatiates on the duty of self-restraint in composition : " No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate"; and again: "So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing;... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English prose literature - 1892 - 216 pages
...Discoveries (54 28 and 55 18), in which Jonson expatiates on the duty of self-restraint in composition: "No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate"; and again: "So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing;... | |
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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... 
