 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 286 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...No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ; seek the best, andbe not glad of the forward conceits, or first words, that... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 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...No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate ; seek the best, andbe not glad of the forward conceits, or first words, that... | |
 | William Edward Mead - English language - 1894 - 298 pages
...wished? There would only be more expense with no result, &c." CHAPTER VII. COMPOSITION AND REVISION. " No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate." " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare,... | |
 | William Marvel Nevin - English literature - 1895 - 526 pages
...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...this with diligence and often. No matter how slow at first, so it be laboured and accurate, seek the best and be not glad of froward conceits, or first... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 448 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...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 offer... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 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...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 offer... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 364 pages
...beginning and end than in the midst, and in the end more than in the beginning. B. JONSON, Timber, p. 62. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate. ID., p. 54. Accuracy is seen in the expression. DRYDEN, XII., p. 284. During the present century, the... | |
 | Hugo Reinsch - Poetry - 1899 - 148 pages
...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...style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate." Man soll sich nicht mit den ersten besten Ausdrücken, die einem einfallen, zufrieden geben, sondern... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1899 - 386 pages
...composition be comely ; and to do this with diligence and often.' (iv) ' No matter,' he goes on to say, ' how slow the style be at first, so it be laboured...and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad of the first thoughts, or of the first words that offer themselves to us, but judge of what we invent.' (v)... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1899 - 386 pages
...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...comely ; and to do this with diligence and often.' (iv) 'No matter,' he goes on to say, 'how slow the style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate... | |
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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... 
