| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 страници
...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...expression, the 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... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 страници
...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...way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man,—in the subject,—and in the occasion. 5. Then, words have lost thoir power, rhetoric is vain,... | |
| 1854 - 576 страници
...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...marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It most exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected pission, intense expression, the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 504 страници
...but they will toil IB HIS DESCRIPTION Of TRUE ELOQUENCE. 57 vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way but they cannot compass it. It must 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 526 страници
...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 the subject, and in... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1855 - 520 страници
...True eloquence, in Joed, 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...expression, the 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... | |
| John Frost - 1855 - 462 страници
...True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from fai Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words...expression, the 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... | |
| 1855 - 506 страници
...True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words...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... | |
| Salem Town - 1855 - 492 страници
...4. Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not g5 ; keep her for she is my life. 5. True eloquence must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. 6. Let me prepare for the approach of eternity ; let me give up my soul to meditation ; let solitude... | |
| Charles Northend - 1856 - 276 страници
...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...expression, the 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... | |
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