 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Classical education - 1825 - 66 pages
...the ample folds of inversion, or run from the exuberant to the elliptical without ever being either redundant or obscure. Those great wits had no foreknowledge...and regularly fashioned as if by the plumb and rule, 96 and by the eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1838 - 642 pages
...the ample folds of inversion, or run from the exuberant to the elliptical without ever being either redundant or obscure. Those great wits had no foreknowledge...figures fantastically sacrificing the sense — now heavilyand regularly fashioned as if by the plumb and rule, and by the eye rather than the ear, with... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Political science - 1839 - 514 pages
...should arise, and for a season prevail over both purity and nature, and antique recollections—now meretriciously ornamented, more than half French in...ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexjons, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying its defects. Least of... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 382 pages
...unite natural ease and variety with absolute harmony, and give the author's ideas to develop themselve with the more truth and simplicity when clothed in...as if by the plumb and rule, and by the eye rather thart the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...the ample folds of inversion, or run from the exuberant to the elliptical without ever being either P. Nimmo among us professing to teach composition, and ignorant of the whole of its rules, and incapable of... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
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 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 562 pages
...the ample folds of inversion, or run from the exuberant to the elliptical without ever being either redundant or obscure. Those great wits had no foreknowledge...English eloquence have imagined that men should appear among us professing to teach composition, and ignorant of the whole of its rules, and incapable of... | |
 | English Orators - 1900 - 558 pages
...the ample folds of inversion, or run from the exuberant to the elliptical without ever being either redundant or obscure. Those great wits had no foreknowledge...English eloquence have imagined that men should appear among us professing to teach composition, and ignorant of the whole of its rules, and incapable of... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1911 - 408 pages
...folds of inversion, or run from the exuberant to the elliptical without ever being either redunant or obscure. Those great wits had no foreknowledge...English eloquence have imagined that men should appear among us professing to each composition, and ignorant of the whole of its rules, and incapable of relishing... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...the ample folds of inversion, or run from the exuberant to the elliptical without ever being either redundant or obscure. Those great wits had no foreknowledge...to mere figures fantastically sacrificing the sense — now1 heavily and regularly fashioned as if by the plumb and rule, and by the eye rather than the... | |
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... redundant or obscure. Those great wits had no foreknowledge of such times as succeeded their brilliant age, when styles should arise, and for a season prevail over both purity, and nature, and antique recollections — now meretriciously ornamented,... 
