 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 ページ
...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. — Webster. The GUTTURAL QUALITY expresses Loathing, Contempt, Hatred, Revenge, Scorn, etc. EXAMPLES.... | |
 | Albert M. Bacon - 1872 - 294 ページ
...Eloquence, which is the culmination of oratory, has been denned as " logic on fire." Daniel Webster says of it, " It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking...fires, with spontaneous, original, native force." The study of oratory evidently presupposes a knowledge of such branches as are needful to supply the orator... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 ページ
...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 outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting-forth of volcanic fires, — with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in... | |
 | 1875 - 324 ページ
...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...speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and tho fates of their wives, their children, and their country hang on. the decision of the hour. 2. Then... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 ページ
...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...speech shock and disgust men, when their own lives, stud the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour.... | |
 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 ページ
...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...fires — with spontaneous, original, native force. 4. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1878 - 312 ページ
...occasion. Affected passion, Intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire alter it,— they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the banting forth of volcanic Qtee, with spontaneous, original, native force." 2. Kinds of Oratory. best.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 ページ
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they true ornamente and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men when their own lives and the fate... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 ページ
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native forcej The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 358 ページ
...way, but they cannot compass it. ja; It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking...volcanic fires with spontaneous, original, native force. 52. DECISIVE; eg =^Qa but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. In assertion. — I hate him,... | |
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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... 
