 True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in...  Webster and His Master-pieces - Page 206by Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 130 pages
...Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of ' a fountain from... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 206 pages
...which produce conviction. True eloquence, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 504 pages
...(ar. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil IB HIS DESCRIPTION Of TRUE ELOQUENCE. 57 vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every...exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Afiected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they cannot... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 276 pages
...vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist hi the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 pages
...produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot bo brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It most exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | 1854 - 560 pages
...discipline, as well as by natural talent and natural temperament, for the part which he was now to act. learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way; but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 234 pages
...conviction.,y True eloquence, does not consist in speech. It cannot be* brought from far. 'Labor and learnmg may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
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