| 1826 - 438 pages
...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...fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of vokanic fir^s, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taugiit in the schools, the costly... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1831 - 722 pages
...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...bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, origiginal, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances... | |
| American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...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...from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic lie;-, •with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments,... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...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...aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if k come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic... | |
| John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 pages
...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...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...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...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
| Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...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...of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth -Dictated, commanded, composed, uttered forth. Oracles, something delivered by supernatural wisdom.... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...toil for it, but they will toil in vain Words and phrases may 10 be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the...comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of 15 a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and 10 be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of 15 a fountain from... | |
| John Sanderson - 1828 - 728 pages
...to the people of all the colonies. North Carolina alone had yet come out with an explicit desire lor the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression,...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outhreaking of a fountain from the... | |
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