 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 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 - 1891 - 462 pages
...years, 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... | |
 | William Henry Hills - 1891 - 274 pages
...Gibbon, in speakingof the manner in which he wrote his " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," said : " Many experiments 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... | |
 | William Henry Hills - 1891 - 228 pages
...Gibbon, in speaking of the manner in which he wrote his " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," said : " Many experiments 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... | |
 | Hugo Erichsen - 1894 - 184 pages
...Gibbon, in speaking of the manner in which he wrote his " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," said : " Many experiments 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... | |
 | 1890 - 398 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 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 - 1896 - 540 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 614 pages
...shall grant that no man ever expressed his own more accurately. But he could not, at the beginning, ' hit the middle tone between a dull Chronicle and a Rhetorical declamation ' ; three times did he compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third ; he revised and reduced the fifteenth... | |
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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... 
