| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 ページ
...that whistles, In autumn, 'rnong the dry and wrinkled leaves. If feeling does not prompt, in vain yon strive. If from the soul the language does not come, By its own impulse, to impel the heart* Of hearers with communicated power, In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly ! Toil on... | |
| Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, John Fletcher Hurst - 1884 - 614 ページ
...mirror within reach. Goethe's words, in Faust, will cover all our remaining ground: If feeling docs not prompt, in vain you strive; If from the soul the language docs not come, By its own impulse, to impel the hearts Of hearers, with communicated power, lu vain... | |
| John MacLean - 1889 - 360 ページ
...There is manifest in the examples of true Indian oratory extant, what Goethe has well said : " If froi^ the soul the language does not come, By its own impulse...power, In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly. * * Never hope to stir the hearts of men, And mould the souls of many into one, By words which come... | |
| 1890 - 614 ページ
...the best kind of mirror within reach. Goethe's words, in Faust, will cover all our remaining ground: If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive; If...In vain you strive — in vain you study earnestly. ' Letters and Memoirs of the Life of Charles Kingsley, p. 384. The entire letter addressed to Miss... | |
| John MacLean - 1892 - 366 ページ
...desired. There is manifest in the examples of true Indian oratory extant, what Goethe has well said : " If from the soul the language does not come, By its...power. In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly. * * Never hope to stir the hearts of men, And mould the souls of many into one, By words which come... | |
| William Boyd Carpenter - 1895 - 272 ページ
...of sincerity. The things of which he speaks must not be ideas merely ; they must be convictions. " If from the soul the language does not come By its...In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly." Unless we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, we shall seek in vain to move the hearts... | |
| 1897 - 328 ページ
...on no one; Are unrefreshing as the wind that whistles, In autumn, 'mong the dry and wrinkled leaves. If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive. If...you strive, in vain you study earnestly ! Toil on forever, piece together fragments, Cook up your broken scraps of sentences, And blow, with puffing... | |
| Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1898 - 490 ページ
...in this world, heart speaks to heart : the man, as he was, appeals direct to the men, as they were. "If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive; If from the soul the language docs not come, By its own impulse, to impel the hearts Of hearers, with communicated power, In vain... | |
| Sir William Mitchell Ramsay - 1899 - 512 ページ
...ever in this world, heart speaks to heart : the man as he was appeals direct to the men as they were. If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive ; If...hearers, with communicated power, In vain you strive. . . . Never hope to stir the hearts of men, And mould the souls of many into one, By words which come... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 896 ページ
...no one ; Are unrefreshing as the wind that whistles, In autumn, 'mong the dry and wrinkled leaves. If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive. If...impulse, to impel the hearts Of hearers with communicated pmrer, In vain you strive, in vain vou study earnestly! Toil on forever, piece together fragments,... | |
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