 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pages
...about ^8oo a year, it would seem. When he began to write the History, he found it very difficult to "hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation," but with practice facility soon came, and the vast proportion of the work was printed from the first... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 pages
...mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were niaile before I could hit the middle tone between a dull...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the Dr. Warton and his brother Mr. Thomas Warton, Dr. Burney, Ло., form a hirgc ami luminous... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pages
...he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments," he continues, " were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull tone and a rhetorical declamation. Three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 pages
...he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments," he continues, " were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull tone and a rhetorical declamation. Three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 pages
...he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments," he continues, " were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull tone and a rhetorical declamation. Three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1890 - 784 pages
...image of his mind," observes Gibbon, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the...between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation." A true and natural style is the product of birth, though it may be modified by education. It cannot... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1890 - 782 pages
...image of his mind," observes Gibbon, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the...between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation." A true and natural style is the product of birth, though it may be modified by education. It cannot... | |
 | 1890 - 444 pages
...has mentioned what a number of experiments he made in the composition of his great history, before he could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation. The first chapter was written and re-written three times, and the second and third twice, before he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 pages
...BOSWELL. ' Gibbon (Misc. Works, i. 219) thus writes of his own style : — '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 - 1891 - 456 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... | |
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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... 
