| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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