...comme un homme d'esprit." " The style of an author should be the image of his mind," observes Gibbon, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit...between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation." A true and natural style is the product of birth, though it may be modified by education. It cannot...

...his masterpiece. He was a fastidious writer, and wrote nothing " in haste, to repent at leisure." " Three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice...before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect." • Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains, just as its opposite might be...

...his masterpiece. He was a fastidious writer, and wrote nothing " in haste, to repent at leisure." " Three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice...before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect." Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains, just as its opposite might be described...

...chief peculiarity lies — yet this, I believe, has never been shown. In his autobiography he says, " Many experiments were made before I could hit the...between a dull chronicle, and a rhetorical declamation." The immense theme of the decline and fall required precisely the kind of sentence which he habitually...

...fresh as the flowers in May." " The style of an author," says Gibbon, " should be the image of his mind ; but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise " : and it is in his lyrics that Peele, like so many other of his contemporaries — as Dekker for...

...He could not please himself either in the arrangement of his subject or the style of his diction. " Many experiments were made before I could hit the...: 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...

...narrative, will feel no surprise at the care with which the work was evolved. "Three times," says Gibbon, "did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second...before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect," and of the two final chapters he explains that " three successive revisais were necessary to reduce...

...writing the first volume of the Decline and Fall). The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. . . . Three times did I compose the first chapter; and three the second and third, before I was tolerably...

...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...the first chapter, and twice the second and third, 151 before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced with...

...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...middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declama•' tion : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the " • From the mixed,...