 | Salem Town - 1855 - 492 ページ
...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 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... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 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'...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 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 tKe earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | James Fleming - 1904 - 280 ページ
...' Nothing is given to mortals without indefatigable labour.' CHAPTER XVII. THE PLATFORM. 'Eloquence must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.' — WEBSTER. WE have arrived at an age which may be called the Era of Benevolence. Eeligious and philanthropic... | |
 | 1905 - 636 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 comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | 1914 - 252 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 in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. I Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot... | |
 | John Calvin Reed - 1905 - 494 ページ
...do this you can adapt to it Webster's words : "True eloquence . . . does not consist in speech. ... It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. . . . It comes . . . like . . . the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous original, native... | |
 | John Calvin Reed - 1905 - 510 ページ
...do this you can adapt to it Webster's words : " True eloquence . . . does not consist in speech. ... It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. . _ It comes . . . like . . . the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous original, native... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 556 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...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,... | |
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Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. 
