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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... "
The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion - Page 295
1797
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The Life of Edward Gibbon: With Selections from His Correspondence and ...

Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Literature - 1840 - 382 pages
...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...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 their...
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The life of Edward Gibbon [by himself] with selections from his ...

Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...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...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 their...
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Cyclopędia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...should be the image- of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. es. Is the sable warrior? tied ? Thy son is gone. He rests among the dead. T tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ared, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was hea tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second...
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Autobiography: Illus. from His Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narratives

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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...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 their...
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The Auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated from His Letters, with ...

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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...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 their...
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Lives of men of letters and science who flourished in ..., Volume 2; Volume 123

Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...from Hampshire to London. At length, in 1772, he began the work, and so little did he find it easy to "hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation," that the first chapter was thrice, and the two following ones were twice composed, before he could...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...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 tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the seccrnd...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1854 - 468 pages
...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...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the Dr. Warton and his brother Mr. Thomas Warton, Dr. Burney, &c., form a large and luminous...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...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...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the Dr. Warton and his brother Mr. Thomas Warton, Dr. Burney, &c., form a large and luminous...
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