...Quixote. Gibbon gave most critical study to the formation of his style. ' Many experiments,' he says, ' 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...

...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 I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their...

...about ^8oo a year, it would seem. When he began to write the History, he found it very difficult to "hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation," but with practice facility soon came, and the vast proportion of the work was printed from the first...

...mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were niaile before I could hit the middle tone between a dull...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the Dr. Warton and his brother Mr. Thomas Warton, Dr. Burney, Ло., form a hirgc ami luminous...

...he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments," he continues, " were made 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...

...he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments," he continues, " were made 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...

...he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments," he continues, " were made 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...

...image of his mind," observes Gibbon, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the...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...

...image of his mind," observes Gibbon, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the...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...

...has mentioned what a number of experiments he made in the composition of his great history, before he could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation. The first chapter was written and re-written three times, and the second and third twice, before he...