 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...purpose he had already accumulated; but a style was yet to be formed* "Many experiments," he tells us, "were made before I could hit, the middle tone between...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 Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 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... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 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... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
..." 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... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 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 - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 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... | |
 | Peter Anton - Agriculture - 1880 - 268 pages
...chapters, and the order of the narrative, and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years 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... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1884 - 346 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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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... 
