| Robert Mushet - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, &c. I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years." 8. Can we help, therefore, being grateful to such men as have spent their best days, and often consumed... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...At the outset,' he remarks, ' all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true era And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the miiid, but the choice and command of lat guage is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...At the outset,' he remarks, ' all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits...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... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 Seiten
...dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the evipire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narration ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years.1 Akenside has exquisitely... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 Seiten
...labours. " At the outset," he says, " all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 Seiten
...of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful — even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits...narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the imasre of his mind, but the choice and command... | |
| 1855 - 424 Seiten
...was dark and doubtful, even the title of the work, the true sera of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, the limits of the introduction, the division...years. The style of an author should be the image of hie mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made... | |
| W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 Seiten
...É At the outset,' he says, 6 all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits...narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years ; ' and, again, ¿ three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...volume of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful—even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...of my history. At th« outset all was dark and doubtful — even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits...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... | |
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