 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...away the labour of feven years. The ftyle of ah author ihould be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before 1 could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation *.' Our author, by... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...the labour of feven years. The ftyle of an author flioiild be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife....chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I cotnpofe the firft chapter, and twice the fécond and third, before I was tolerably faibfied wiih their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...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 decla• From the mixed, though polite, company of Boodle's White's, and Brookes's, I must honourably... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...British stars. image 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...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...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...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were mndu before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...should be the image of hi.s mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ttle to the tune, thru intermitt tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...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...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their... | |
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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... 
