 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 lehte
...narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 lehte
...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... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 lehte
...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... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 lehte
...he came to write the first volume of his great work, he says : " The style of an 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 middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 lehte
...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 lehte
...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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 514 lehte
...composing the first volume of his history, he tells us in another place, " 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 were the experiments he owns to have made before he could hit the middle tone, as he... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 lehte
...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... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 lehte
...great pains in forming a suitable style of composition. " The style of an author," says he, " 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... | |
 | 1875 - 448 lehte
...narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. 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... | |
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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... 
