 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - English language - 1915 - 156 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... | |
 | Lane Cooper - Literature - 1915 - 264 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Authors, English - 1923 - 154 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1641 - 146 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 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 - American literature - 1923 - 426 pages
...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 - Poetry - 1925 - 346 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 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 - English language - 1926 - 380 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 . . . first words that offer themselves to us, but judge of what we invent, and order what we approve,... | |
 | Authorship - 1927 - 420 pages
...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 - English literature - 1989 - 370 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 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... 
