| David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject,...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
| Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...4. Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not g6 ; keep her,ibr she is thy 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... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the out-breaking of a fountain from (he earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic... | |
| Samuel P. Lyman - 1858 - 580 pages
...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,...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... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject,...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 earth,... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject,...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass 3 it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and...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,... | |
| Leroy Jones Halsey - Bible as literature - 1859 - 448 pages
...without the third. Says a high authority, Mr. Webster, " true eloquence does not consist in mere speech. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Such a subject Demosthenes had in the liberty of Greece, and such an occasion in the threatened invasion... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...learning may toil for it, but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every s '._v, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in thi subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense ex. • ;. sion, the pomp of declamation,... | |
| Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, — they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject,...of declamation, all may aspire after it, — -they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or... | |
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