 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 28publié par - 1897Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1796 - 622 pages
...choice and command of language is the 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 the friendfliip of Mr. (now Lord) Eliot, who had married his firft couftn, was returned,... | |
 | 1796 - 616 pages
...choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I cotnpofe the firft chapter, and twice the fécond and third, before I was tolerably faibfied wiih... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pages
...choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull 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... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...&nd and command of language is the fruit of exercife. — Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...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 : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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 : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...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 : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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 : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...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 : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with... | |
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