 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...narrative ; and I was 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...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...narrative ; and I was 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...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 - 1796 - 360 pages
...narrative; and I was 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...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 pages
...hieroglyphies of Egypt, &c. are entitled to the praife of learoing, imagination, and difeemment." &nd and command of language is the fruit of exercife....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
...narrative; and I was 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 made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...Mr. Thomas 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 fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 716 pages
...form than the 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...narrative; and I was 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 made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...narrative; and I was ofteA 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 made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | 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,... | |
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Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull 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 effect. 
