 | 308 pages
...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... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1898 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1845 - 716 pages
...afford. t Johnson's " Vanity of Human Wishes." June.—VOL. LXXIV. No. ccxciv.' T of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise." About this time, however, we find his heart much interested in Miss Surtees, the lady whom... | |
 | George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1931 - 348 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | W[illiam] D[ouglas]. Cox - 1897 - 212 pages
...working men, was perfectly sufficient." (Macaulay, 1800—1859.) " 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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 612 pages
...chapters, and the order of the narratjvf ; and I was often tempted to caft away the labour of fevcn years. The ftyle of an author fhould be the image of his mind, hut the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before... | |
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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... 
