| Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...written or eompofed; to contract that round-about method of ex* " Concife your didtion, let your fenfe be clear, " Nor, with a weight of words, fatigue the ear." FRANCIS. preflion, and to lop off thofe ufelefs excref- LE c T. cences which are commonly found in a firft draught.... | |
| Horace - Latin poetry - 1806 - 492 pages
...elegantly writ. Tis not enough a bursting laugh to raise, And yet even this may well deserve its praise ; Close be your language ; let your sense be clear. Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear. From grave to jovial you must change with art. How play the critic's, now the poet's part; In raillery... | |
| Horace - 1807 - 402 pages
...enough a bursting laugh to raise, Tci ev'n this talent may deserve its praise: Concise your diction ; let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear. Now change from grave to gay with ready art. Now play the orator's or poet's part; In raillery assume... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...vigour and energy when thus retrenched; provided always, that we run not into * " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, " Nor with a weight of words, fatigue the ear." FRANCIS the extreme of pruning so very close, as to give a hardness and dryness to style. For here, as in all... | |
| Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...sentence where they will make the fullest impression. Q, What is the fourth ? \ * " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words, fatigue the ear." HORACE A. Make the members of the sentence go on rising in their importance one above another. Q, What... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 286 pages
...bursting laugh to raise, And yet e'en this may well deserve its praise: Close be your language; Jet your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear. From grave to jovial you must change with art, Now play the critic's, now the poet's part; In raillery... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 458 pages
...excrescences which are commonly found in a first draught. Here a severe eye should be " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear." FRANCIS. employed ; and we shall always find our sentences acquire more vigour and energy when thus retrenched... | |
| Hugh Blair - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1824 - 510 pages
...copulatives, relatives, and all the particles employed for transition and connex* " Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, •' Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear." ion. These little words, but, and, which, whose, where, &.c. are frequently the most important words... | |
| John Wesley - 1827 - 580 pages
...opus, ut currat sententia, ncu se Impediat verhis lassas onerantibus aures.' ' Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a -weight of words fatigue the ear.' In his Works, we may observe his words are well chosen, being pure, proper to his subject, and precise... | |
| Richard Watson - 1831 - 346 pages
...employed much leisure time whilst at college in the study of anatomy and medicine. ' Concise your diction, let your sense be clear, Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear.' In all his writings his words are well chosen, pure, proper to his subject, and precise in their meaning.... | |
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