 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...of declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like 6 the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the...force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly orna7 ments, and studied contrivajjces of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of deelamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires, with spontancous, original, native foree. The graces taught in the schools, the costly... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1852 - 612 pages
...occasion. Affeeied piission. intense expression, the pomp of declamation, ¡ill may aspire to it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the out-breaking of a fountain I rom the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1852 - 580 pages
...; they cannot reach it. It cornea, If it come at all, like the out-breaking of n fountain Irom lite earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires with spontaneous, original, native 'Lord MAHON'S History' is a very long and elaborate article, which •will both invite and reward perusal,... | |
 | 1853 - 504 pages
...imitated. As America's great orator says of eloquence, " it comes, if it comes at all, like the outhreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth...fires, with spontaneous, original, native force," and not in the form of a puerile and mechanical sing-song. So near does this approach to clap-trap... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 pages
...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It 'comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting force of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 234 pages
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like,...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own livts, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...occasion. Affected pission, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native foree. The graces taught in the schools, the costly... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 pages
...pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all,like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the...volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning... | |
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Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after... 
