 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 Seiten
...era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of III 2 A 3S4 THE PROSE OF THE DECADENCE CHAP. 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,"... | |
 | Francis Kingsley Ball - 1923 - 488 Seiten
...: 1 have the honor to be, Honorable and Reverend Sirs, Your obedient servant. CHAPTER XI EXERCISES The style of an author should be the image of his...and command of language is the fruit of exercise. — GIBBON. 546. Exercise I (Preface). a. 1. Read the quotation on the title-page. 2. Why is education... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 Seiten
...even the title of the work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of 111 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,"... | |
 | William Crary Brownell - 1924 - 244 Seiten
...stately Gibbon is also thoroughly interesting as based on practical mastery as well as on perception. C" The style of an author should be the image of his mind," he says, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."^, He emphasizes thus the... | |
 | 1928 - 580 Seiten
...Editor, NEWARK, NJ Published by G. & C. MERRIAM Co., Springfield, Mass. SEPTEMBER, 1934 NO. 1 s/y/eo/ an author should be the image of his mind, but the...and command of language is the fruit of exercise. — EDWARD GIBBON. ^ .• WHAT'S A WORD? What is a word? Not the letters of it, they are only memoranda.... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1925 - 300 Seiten
...stately Gibbon is also thoroughly interesting as based on practical mastery as well as on perception. "The style of an author should be the image of his mind," he says, "but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise." He emphasizes thus the... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 Seiten
...strongly, should be described while the first impression remains fresh upon the mind. Ibid., B, I, 337. THE style of an author should be the image of his...and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Gibbon, M, I, 145. A MAN'S style is his mind's voice. Emerson, J, X, 457. THE rules of style, like... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - 1928 - 252 Seiten
...mediocre croit ecrire divinement ; un bon esprit croit ecrire raisonnablement. LA BRUYZRE, Let Caracteres. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is in the fruit of exercise. EDWARD GIBBON, Autobiography. All styles are only means of subduing the reader.... | |
 | 1921 - 826 Seiten
...acquire it we must learn the language which is its basis. The distinction was well put by Gibbon : " The style of an author should be the image of his...and command of language is the fruit of exercise." THE OXFORD WOMEN'S COLLEGES FVND. — The Oxford Women's Colleges Fund amounted last month to ¿5.433,... | |
 | André Bernard - 1996 - 132 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 labors of seven years . . . EDWARD GIBBON EDWARD ALBEE Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) ONE of... | |
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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... 
