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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 ; three times... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 549
by Edward Gibbon - 1826
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The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History ..., Volume 58

Great Britain - 1796 - 982 pages
...firft chapter, and twice the fécond and third, before I was tolerably fctisfied with their eifert. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and eafy pace ; but the fifteenth and lixtecnth chapters have been reduced by three fucceffive revifals,...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 1

1797 - 610 pages
...firft chapter, and twice the fecond and third, before I was tolerably fatisfied with their effeft. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and eafy pace." About this time, by the friendfliip or Mr. (now Lord) Eliot, who had married his firft...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...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...third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their eifect. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and easy pace ; but the fifteenth...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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...and sixteenth chapters have been reduced, by three successive revisals, from a large volume to their present size; and they might still be compressed...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...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...and sixteenth chapters have been reduced, by three successive revisals, from a large volume to their present size ; and they might still be compressed...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull tone and a be gafel witli their effect. In the remainder of the way, I advanced with a more equal and easy pace.' In 1774...
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The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science ...

Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" and, again, " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably certain of their effect." At length, in 1776, previously to which he had been returned to parliament...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 1

Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably certain of their effect." At length, on the 17th of February, 1776, the first volume of ' The Decline...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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...and sixteenth chapters have been reduced, by three successive revisals, from a large volume to their present size ; and they might still be compressed,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...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...and sixteenth chapters have been reduced, by three successive revisals, from a large volume to their present size ; and they might still be compressed,...
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