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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay - Page 28
edited by - 1885 - 367 pages
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Sir Philip Sydney's Defense of Poetry: And Observations on Poetry and ...

Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 pages
...place. So. that the fum of all is : ready writing makes not good^writing ; but good writing wings onit ready writing : yet when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to refift it; as . to give a horfe a check fometimes with a bit, which doth not fo much flop his courfe,...
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The Elements of English Composition: Containing Practical Instructions for ...

David Irving - 1803 - 266 pages
...fum of all is •' ready T 2. ' "" ; writing make* not good writing but good wrjting brings «f». ready writing : yet when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to refift it ; as to give a horfe a check fometimes with a bit, which doih not fo much flop his courfe,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...more plentifully ; their words answered, their composition followed ; and all, as in a well-ordered family, presented itself in the place. So that the...resist it ; as to give a horse a check sometimes with a bit, which doth not so much stop his course, as stir his mettle. Again, whether a man's genius is...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...more plentifully ; their words answered, their composition followed ; and all, as in a well-ordered family, presented itself in the place. So that the...resist it ; as to give a horse a check sometimes with a bit, which doth not so much stop his course, as stir his mettle. Again, whether a man's genius is...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...more plentifully ; their words answered, their composition followed ; and all, as in a well-ordered family, presented itself in the place. So that the...writing brings on ready writing ; yet, when we think we lave got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it; as to give a horse a check sometimes with...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 9

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...more plentifully ; their words answered, their composition followed ; and all, as in a well-ordered family, presented itself in the place. So that the...writing makes not good writing ; but good writing brings ou ready writing: yet, when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it ; as...
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The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of Grammar

David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...followed ; and all, as in a well.ord«red family* presented itself in the place. So that the sum of of all is; ready writing makes not good writing; but...resist it ; as to give a horse a check sometimes with a bit, which doth not so much stop his course, as stir his mettle. Discoveiies.* HOOKER. They of whom...
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The Lives of the Poets-laureate: With an Introductory Essay on the Title and ...

Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 448 pages
...composition followed; and all as in a well-ordered family, presented itselfe in the place. So that the summe of all is, ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing: yet when wee thinke wee have got the faculty, it were then good to resist it, as to give a horse a check sometimes...
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The Lives of the Poets-laureate

Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 pages
...; but good writing brings on ready writing : yet when wee thinke wee have got the faculty, it were then good to resist it, as to give a horse a check sometimes with a bit which doth not so much stop his course as stirre his metal." Of Shakespeare he says : " I remember...
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Palaestra stili Latini; or, Materials for translation into Latin prose ...

Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...composition followed ; and all, as in a well-ordered family, presented itself in the place. So that the summe of all is, ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing : yet when wee thinke wee have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it, as to give a horse a check...
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