 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 Seiten
...his'• At the outset all was dark and doubtful,— even the title of the work, the true era of >eclinc l talk with them too — Who loses, und who win;-: who's in, who's out: — UTS, and the order of the narrative, — and I was often tempted to cast away the labor veil years.'... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 Seiten
...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...the division of the chapters and the order of the narration : and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years." The memoirs of his life... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 Seiten
...Empire, 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." The memoirs of his life reveal to us a picture of his untiring industry, and persistent devotion to his... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 Seiten
...even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of III 2 A the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative." After seven years, he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments,"... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 Seiten
...even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of J1I 2 A the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative." After seven years, he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments,"... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 Seiten
...even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of III 2 \ the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative." After seven years, he was sometimes inclined to destroy all that he had written. " Many experiments,"... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1890 - 788 Seiten
...ni ne s'assied. ni ne se leve, ni ne se tait, ni n'est sur les jambes, comme un homme d'esprit." " The style of an author should be the image of his mind," observes Gibbon, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 434 Seiten
...enabled to do by the admitted fact that style can be controlled, and language artistically handled. "The style of an author should be the image of his mind," said Gibbon. That is the subjective aspect. " But," he continues, " the choice and command of language... | |
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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 of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted... 
