| Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 612 דפים
...and library, than I undertook the competition of the firft volume of my hiitory. At the outfet ail was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work,...the divifion of the chapters, and the order of the narratjvf ; and I was often tempted to caft away the labour of fevcn years. The ftyle of an author... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 דפים
...house and library than I undertook the composition of the first volume of my History. At the outset all was dark and doubtful, — even the title of the...of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the... | |
| University of St. Andrews - 1898 - 610 דפים
...house and library than I undertook the composition of the first volume of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the...of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the... | |
| 308 דפים
...house and library, than I undertook the composition of the first volume of my History. At the outset all was dark and doubtful; even the title of the work, the true aera of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
| George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1931 - 348 דפים
...house and library, than I undertook the composition of the first volume of my History. At the outset all was dark and doubtful; even the title of the work, the true aera of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 דפים
...house and library than I undertook the composition of the first Volume of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful — even the title of the work, the true aera of the decline and fall of the Empire, the limits of the Introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 486 דפים
...afterwards inserted in some of his other works. Even Gibbon tells us of his Koman History, " at the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the L. LITERARY COMPOSITION. 257 true »ra of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction,... | |
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