| 1796 - 622 頁
...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 a rhetorical declamation *.' Our author, by... | |
| 1796 - 616 頁
...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....chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I cotnpofe the firft chapter, and twice the fécond and third, before I was tolerably faibfied wiih their... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 頁
...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 decla• From the mixed, though polite, company of Boodle's White's, and Brookes's, I must honourably... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 頁
...British stars. image 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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 頁
...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... | |
| 1830 - 336 頁
...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 頁
...his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were mndu before 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 third,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 頁
...should be the image of hi.s mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ttle to the tune, thru intermitt tone and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 頁
...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 頁
...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... | |
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