 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 246 σελίδες
...often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the...their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced * From the mixed though polite company of Boodle's, White's, and Brooka's, I must honorably distinguish... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 614 σελίδες
...shall grant that no man ever expressed his own more accurately. But he could not, at the beginning, ' hit the middle tone between a dull Chronicle and a Rhetorical declamation ' ; three times did he compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third ; he revised and reduced the fifteenth... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1898 - 300 σελίδες
...library, and was writing that first chapter of his great work which he thrice composed in the attempt " to hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation." He was not likely to have been drawn away from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, to edit the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 σελίδες
...tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The 25 style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the...declamation. Three times did I compose the first chapter, 3° and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainder... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 σελίδες
...lifetime." (Miscellaneous Works\, 1, footnote.) unsuccessful efforts at composing the History before he " could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation." * The same was the method employed in writing his Essay on the Study of Literature, and it is significant... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 σελίδες
...often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the...before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect." The first volume appeared in 1 776 and was received with great applause. Its excellence of matter and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 564 σελίδες
...tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. ' The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the...chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was EDWAHD GIBBON tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 σελίδες
...often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the...chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was 330 GIBBON AND HIS HISTORY. tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 σελίδες
...years it has been in my thoughts and even under my pen" (it., p. 259).] should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.1 Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1901 - 202 σελίδες
...years." When the time for composition arrived, he showed a fastidiousness which was full of good augury. "Three times did I compose the first chapter, and...second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied w ith their effect." His hand grew firmer as he advanced. But the two final chapters interposed a long... | |
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