 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 ページ
...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...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it,—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 ページ
...Labour 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...all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a mountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | 1837 - 352 ページ
...Labour 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...all may aspire after it— -they cannot reach it, It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 ページ
...Labour 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...all may aspire after it— they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the out-breaking of a mountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | 1837 - 486 ページ
...the mysterious power in which true and genuine eloquence consists. He can only say that " it comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth." Would you read or speak well, follow nature. She instructs us to enter into the spirit of what we read... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 ページ
...Labour 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...all may aspire after it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the out-breaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 ページ
...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...man, — in the subject, — and in the occasion. 3. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot... | |
 | William Henry Furness - 1838 - 476 ページ
...impulse, that the godlike alone can awaken." COLERIDGE. " True eloquence does not consist in speech. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting force... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 ページ
...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...all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 ページ
...Labour and learning may toil for it, but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
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Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. 
