 | 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 - English literature - 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... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Authors, English - 1898 - 300 pages
...library, and was writing that first chapter of his great work which he thrice composed in the attempt " to hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation." He was not likely to have been drawn away from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, to edit the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...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...third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect." The first volume appeared in 1 776 and was received with great applause. Its excellence of... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 564 pages
...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...chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was EDWAHD GIBBON tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...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...chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was 330 GIBBON AND HIS HISTORY. tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 pages
.... During some years it has been in my thoughts and even under my pen" (it., p. 259).] should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.1 Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1901 - 202 pages
...years." When the time for composition arrived, he showed a fastidiousness which was full of good augury. "Three times did I compose the first chapter, and...second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied w ith their effect." His hand grew firmer as he advanced. But the two final chapters interposed a long... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1902 - 784 pages
...comme un homme d'esprit." " The style of an author should be the image of his mind," observes Gibbon, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit...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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1902 - 254 pages
...his masterpiece. He was a fastidious writer, and wrote nothing " in haste, to repent at leisure." " Three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice...third before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect." • Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains, just as its opposite... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 238 pages
...his masterpiece. He was a fastidious writer, and wrote nothing " in haste, to repent at leisure." " Three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice...third before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect." Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains, just as its opposite might... | |
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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 did... 
