 The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times...  The Popular Educator - Σελίδα 6701855Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1834 - 602 σελίδες
...of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" and, again, " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably certain of their effect." At length, in 1776, previously to which he had been returned to parliament... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 σελίδες
...and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably certain of their effect." At length, on the 17th of February, 1776, the first volume of ' The Decline... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 σελίδες
...labour of seven years. ••_) The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the ,s choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise....chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I j, compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I ,;; was tolerably satisfied... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 σελίδες
...and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably certain of their effect." At length, on the 17th of February, 1776, the first volume of 'The Decline... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 σελίδες
...tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. The style of an author should be the image- of his uch he lies No pitying heart, no eye afford A tear...tied ? Thy son is gone. He rests among the dead. T tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 σελίδες
...often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his adventurers disdain The tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 σελίδες
...tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. VThe style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the...was tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remaintitle of ihe Literary Club. (Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p. 415. Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 σελίδες
...often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the...was tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remaintitle of th* Literary Club. (Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p. 415. Bo§well's Tour to the Hebrides,... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 σελίδες
...from Hampshire to London. At length, in 1772, he began the work, and so little did he find it easy to "hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation," that the first chapter was thrice, and the two following ones were twice composed, before he could... | |
 | Moses Ballou - 1850 - 262 σελίδες
...before he could acquire a style which would answer at all to his ideal. " ' Three times,' says he, ' did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with the effort. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and easy pace ; but the 15th and... | |
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