 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 - Page 6701855Full view - About this book
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...often tempted to caft 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...often tempted to caft away the labour of feven years. The ftyle of an 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 middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...often tempted to caft away the labor of feven years. The ftyle of an author 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 middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...tempted to caft away 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. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...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...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
...Warton, Dr. 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 716 pages
...of a magazine afford. T Johnion'i " Vanity of Human Wishes." of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise." His plan of life now was to be, when old enough, ordained, and eventually to retire from Oxford on... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...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 fruit of exercise. Many experiments were mndu before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and rhetorical declamation : three... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Restoration to the Accession of the House of HanThe style of an author should be the image of hi.s along, And all the lair is crowded in his tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
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