 | 1796 - 622 páginas
...and I was often tempted to caft away the labour of feven years. The ftyle of ah author ihould be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before 1 could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | 1796 - 616 páginas
...I was often tempted to caft away the labour of feven years. The ftyle of an author flioiild be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 páginas
...and I was often tempted to caft away the labour of feven years. The ftyle of an auihor fhould be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 páginas
...and I was often tempted to caft away the labor of feven years. The ftyle of an author fhould be the image of his mind , but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercife. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and... | |
 | 1796 - 618 páginas
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 | 1797 - 610 páginas
...of learoing, imagination, and difeemment." &nd and command of language is the fruit of exercife. — Many experiments were made before I could hit the...chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compofe the firft chapter, and twice the fecond and third, before I was tolerably fatisfied with their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...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...middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical decla• From the mixed, though polite, company of Boodle's White's, and Brookes's, I must honourably... | |
 | 1845 - 716 páginas
...than the pages of a magazine afford. T Johnion'i " Vanity of Human Wishes." of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise." His plan of life now was to be, when old enough, ordained, and eventually to retire from Oxford on... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 páginas
...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...third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and easy pace ; but the fifteenth... | |
 | 1830 - 336 páginas
...and I was ofteA 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...third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect. In the remainder of the way I advanced with a more equal and easy pace ; but the fifteenth... | |
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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 did... 
