 | Mervin Block - 1997 - 332 Seiten
...to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground." HENRY DAVID THOREAU "The style of an author should be the image of his...and command of language is the fruit of exercise." EDWARD GIBBON "Whatever is translatable in other and simpler words of the same language, without loss... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 Seiten
...initial difficulties: '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...often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years.' He also laboured to find his own style: 'Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone... | |
 | Mieke Bal, Bryan Gonzales - 1999 - 422 Seiten
...matter of presentation but also determines the content of narrative (Gossman 1990: chaps. 7 and 8). "The style of an author should be the image of his mind" (Gibbon 1923: 141), wrote Gibbon in a way that may call to mind Buffon's well-known dictum; that is... | |
 | Jeremy D. Popkin - 2005 - 350 Seiten
...test of character. "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...often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years." Only by dint of repeated and frustrating experiments did he find "the middle tone between a dull chronicle... | |
 | Michael Dirda - 2006 - 204 Seiten
...cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique. — Willa Gather The style of an author should be the image of his...and command of language is the fruit of exercise. — Edward Gibbon The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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 image of his mind, but the choice and command... | |
 | 308 Seiten
...historian musing over all. Read again the first few lines and observe the ease with which it is done. 4. "The style of an author should be the image of his...and command of language is the fruit of exercise." Here in one short sentence we find compressed the whole theory of the art and practice of composition.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1845 - 716 Seiten
...pages of a magazine afford. t Johnson's " Vanity of Human Wishes." June.—VOL. LXXIV. No. ccxciv.' T of an author should be the image of his mind, but...and command of language is the fruit of exercise." About this time, however, we find his heart much interested in Miss Surtees, the lady whom he subsequently... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 612 Seiten
...of my hiitory. At the outfet ail 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 divifion of the chapters, and the order of the narratjvf ; and I was often tempted to caft away the... | |
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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... 
