 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 : three times...  The Popular Educator - Стр. 6701855Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - Страниц: 786
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - Страниц: 530
...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 reckons it, *... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - Страниц: 458
...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 - Страниц: 272
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - Страниц: 238
...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...their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced * From the mixed though polite company of Boodle's, White's, and Brooks's, I must honorably distinguish... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - Страниц: 182
...everywhere supported by a profusion of learning : ' The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - Страниц: 842
...often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. The %tylc of nn 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 1 could hit the middle tone between a dull tone nod a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose... | |
 | 1881 - Страниц: 842
...dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and thrice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect." He was by this time a man of thirty-five, in the full prime of his life, and fully alive to the gravity... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - Страниц: 1108
...everywhere supported by a profusion of learning : '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 cmilrt hit the middle tone between a dull tone and a rhetorical declamation: thrfe time:* did I compose... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 836
...When the time for composition arrived, he showed a fastidiousness which was full of good augury. " Three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice...before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect." His hand grew firmer as he advanced. But the two final chapters interposed a long delay, and needed... | |
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