 | 1796 - 622 Seiten
...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 the friendfliip of Mr. (now Lord) Eliot, who had married his firft couftn, was returned,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 Seiten
...auihor fhould be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation: three times did I compofe the firft chapter, and twice the fecond and third, before I was tolerably fatisfied with their... | |
 | 1796 - 616 Seiten
...flioiild be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the...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 - 1796 - 360 Seiten
...fhould be the image of his mind , but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compofe the firfl chapter , and twice the fecond and third, before I was tolerably fatisfied with their... | |
 | 1797 - 610 Seiten
...of learoing, imagination, and difeemment." &nd and command of language is the fruit of exercife. — Many experiments were made before I could hit the...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compofe the firft chapter, and twice the fecond and third, before I was tolerably fatisfied with their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 Seiten
...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 fruit of exercise....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 - 1814 - 726 Seiten
...Burney, &c. form a large and luminous constellation of British stars. image image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise....third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their eifect. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and easy pace ; but the fifteenth... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 Seiten
...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 fruit of exercise. Many experiments were mndu before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and rhetorical declamation : three... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...to the Accession of the House of HanThe style of an author should be the image of hi.s mind, but the the lair is crowded in his tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
 | 1834 - 602 Seiten
...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... | |
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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 : three times... 
