 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...narrative ; and I was 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 fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone, between a dull tone and a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 468 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 Dr. Warton and his brother Mr. Thomas Warton, Dr. Burney, &c., form a large and luminous... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the imasre 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... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of hie 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... | |
 | 1855 - 364 pages
...Full." He experienced considerable difficulty in the choice of language, and found it perplexing " to hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation." His love of efFeot influenced his choioe on this occasion. It is seldom well for a man to be much concerned... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...narrative; and I was 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 fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pages
...from Hampshire to London. At length, in 1772, he began the work, and so little did he find it easy to "hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation," that the first chapter was thrice, and the two following ones were twice composed, before he could... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...narrative ; and I was 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 fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...narrative ; and I was 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 fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone, between a dull tone and a... | |
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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... 
