 Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members,...  Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism - Page 243by Lewis Samuel Feuer - 1987 - 323 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...is needed. The Royal Society, therefore, " have exacted from all their members" (Dryden was one) " a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive...plainness as they can; and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars," The remedy which is here prescribed... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Electricity - 1895 - 634 pages
...from the time of Adam, introductory to a physical fact observed yesterday. It "exacted from all its members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen and merchants before that of wits or scholars." Thence sprang that requirement... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1897 - 444 pages
...renovation of English prose. According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they "exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural...near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed " a resolution to reject all the amplifications,digressions, and swellings of style." No literary... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1898 - 952 pages
...constant resolution to reject all the amplifications and digressions of style." They have, he says, exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural...plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars." And he practises what he preaches,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1898 - 858 pages
...constant resolution to reject all the amplifications and digressions of style." They have, he says, exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural...plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars." And he practises what he preaches,... | |
 | 1899 - 452 pages
...determined the new pattern the scientific ideal is prominent. Sprat explains how the Eoyal Society " have exacted from all their members a close, naked,...near the mathematical plainness as they can " ; and this in correction of all kinds of vicious aberration and voluble obscurity. The right manner is serried,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 504 pages
...renovation of English prose. According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural...near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed "a resolution to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style." No literary... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 512 pages
...renovation of English prose. According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural...near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed "a resolution to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style." No literary... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1907 - 440 pages
...renovation of English prose. According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural...near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed " a resolution to reject all the amplifications,digressions, and swellings of style." No literary... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1912 - 544 pages
...members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive expressions, clear senses, a native eas'neas, bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of Artuans, Countrymen, and Merchants before that of Wits or Scholars. So writes Sprat, the first historian... | |
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