 | Salem Town - 1854 - 412 pages
...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the...earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with opontaneous, original, native force. ?• " The 0 * 1 ? 11 ' S el ° quent> then s elf-devotion is... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1855 - 300 pages
...some passages in them fully answer his own definition of genuine patriotic eloquence, which " comes like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth,...fires, with spontaneous, original, native force/' that eloquence which, combines " the clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high... | |
 | 1855 - 506 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 the outhreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires, with spontaneous,... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...occasion. Affected passjon, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic tires with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires with spontaneous, original, native force. Thu graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and die gust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 226 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...volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. Let us look up again at this immense concave above us, where sparkle the countless stars. If it be... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - 1857 - 88 pages
...the pomp of declamation — all may aspire after it ; they can not reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the...volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native foi-ce. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech,... | |
 | Samuel P. Lyman - 1858 - 580 pages
...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It 10* comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of vol« Canic fires with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...it come at all, like the oatbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The...graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and stndied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the out-breaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting fSrth of voleanic fires, with spontaneous, 9 original, native force. 3. The graces taught in the schools,... | |
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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... 
