| Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years.' He also laboured to find his own style: 'Many experiments were made before I could hit the...between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation.' He rewrote chapter I three times, and chapters 2 and 3 twice. The first volume appeared in 1776 and... | |
| Mieke Bal, Bryan Gonzales - Social Science - 1999 - 422 pages
...in the strongest possible sense. History and/as Cultural Analysis GIBBON AND OVID Frank R. Ankersmit "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 the third, before I was tolerably satisfied with... | |
| F. R. Ankersmit - History - 2001 - 340 pages
...not tell us how to evaluate them. HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS GIBBON AND OVID: HISTORY AS METAMORPHOSIS "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 the third, before I was tolerably satisfied with... | |
| J. G. A. Pocock - History - 2001 - 452 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... | |
| W[illiam] D[ouglas]. Cox - 1897 - 212 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... | |
| 308 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... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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 - Byzantine Empire - 1907 - 412 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...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... | |
| George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1931 - 348 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... | |
| University of St. Andrews - 1898 - 610 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...dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation ; three tunes did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied... | |
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