 | English authors - 1876 - 504 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 - 1877 - 238 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... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 pages
...chapters, and the order of the narrative, and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...antithetical, clear and cold, everywhere supported by a profusion of learning : ' 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 rhetorical... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 pages
...authors confess to have reached by patient industry. Says Gibbon : The style of an author should be an 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...Quixote. Gibbon gave most critical study to the formation of his style. ' Many experiments,' he says, ' were made before I could hit the middle tone between...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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...clear and cold, everywhere supported by a profusion of learning : •The etyle of an author should My furniture, part of which I made myself, and the rest cost me nothing of whi or exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull tone and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...Decline and fall to the press in the first draught. ' The style of an author,' he says, 'should be an image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.' Says Quintilian: 'I enjoin that such as are beginning the practice of composition write... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 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... | |
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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... 
