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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 Popular Educator, Volume 6

1855 - 424 pages
...author should be the image of hie 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 the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine)., Volume 7

Biography - 1855 - 364 pages
...Full." He experienced considerable difficulty in the choice of language, and found it perplexing " to hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation." His love of efFeot influenced his choioe on this occasion. It is seldom well for a man to be much concerned...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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 1 was tolerably satisfied with their...
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Lives of Men of Letters of the Time of George III.

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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 Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 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 second...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 1 was tolerably satisfied with their...
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The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian

Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 pages
...should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command l 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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Rhetoric: A Text-book : Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges, and for ...

Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...author should be an 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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 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 1 compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before 1 was tolerably satisfied with...
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