 | 1796 - 982 pages
...firft chapter, and twice the fécond and third, before I was tolerably fctisfied with their eifert. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and eafy pace ; but the fifteenth and lixtecnth chapters have been reduced by three fucceffive revifals,... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...firft chapter, and twice the fecond and third, before I was tolerably fatisfied with their effeft. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and eafy pace." About this time, by the friendfliip or Mr. (now Lord) Eliot, who had married his firft... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...second and third, before 1 was tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainderof the way 1 advanced with a more equal and easy pace; but the...sixteenth chapters have been reduced by three successive révisais, from a large volume to their present size, and they might still be compressed, without any... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and...and sixteenth chapters have been reduced by three succes-ive révisais, from a large volume to their present size, and they might still be compressed,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...before I could hit the middle tone between a dull tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I Chambers Robert" Robert Chamber witli their effect. In the remainder of the way, I advanced with a more equal and easy pace.' In 1774... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably certain of their effect." At length, on the 17th of February, 1776, the first volume of ' The Decline... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably certain of their effect." At length, on the 17th of February, 1776, the first volume of 'The Decline... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...before I could hit the middle tone between a dull tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I e was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to...raven Sapped his wing Around the towers of Cumnor In 1774 he was returned for the borough of Liskeard, and sat in parliament eight sessions during the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...before I could hit the middle tone between a dull tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I salute the rising morn. Fair laughs the mom,8 cflect. In the remainder of the way, I advanced with a more equal and easy pace.' In 1774 he was returned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 pages
...could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and ' a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and...was tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remaintitle of ihe Literary Club. (Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p. 415. Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides,... | |
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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 : three times... 
