... description whatever, has come up, in the one instance, to the pure sentiments of morality, or, in the other, to that variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness... Memoirs of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales - Page 1111808Full view - About this book
| David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 416 pages
...gnnce of diction, strength and '' copiousness of style, pathos and " sublimity of conception, W . " which we have this day listened " with ardour and...poetry up to eloquence, " there is not a species of compo' sition, of which a complete and ' perfect specimen might not from ' that single speech be culled... | |
| David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 430 pages
...with ardour and admiration. " From poetry up to eloquence, " there is not a species of compo" sition, of which a complete and " perfect specimen might not from " that single speech be culled am! " collected." — Mr. Fox said, that " all he had ever heard or read, " when compared with it,... | |
| 1816 - 612 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos...composition of which a complete and perfect specimen night not, from that single speech, be called and selected:"- of a Politician, who was the firm adherent... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 472 pages
...strength of expression, to which they all that day had listened. From poetry up to eloquence, there was not a species of composition of which a complete and perfect specimen might not have been culled, from one part or the other of the speech to which he alluded, and which he was persuaded,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 588 pages
...strength of expression, to which they had all that day listened. From poetry up to eloquence, there was not a species of composition of which a complete and perfect specimen might not have been culled, from one part or the other of the speech to which he alludcdf and which he was persuaded,... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1816 - 736 pages
...of expression, to which they had all that day listened. From poetry up to elo- • quence, there was not a species of composition of which a complete and perfect ' specimen might not have been culled, from .T,e part or the other of the speech to which he alluded, and which, he was... | |
| 1817 - 522 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, pro^ priety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos...specimen might not from that single speech be culled and selected." Upon this encomium, and upon the performance which occasioned it, Dr. Watkins has made some... | |
| John Watkins - 1817 - 374 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos...specimen might not from that single speech be culled and selected." It is lamentable to record the folly and weakness of genius ; but when the interests of... | |
| John Watkins - 1818 - 508 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and •vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos...specimen might not from that single speech be culled and selected." It is lamentable to record the folly and weakness of genius; but when the interests of truth... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...style, pathos and sublimity of conception, to which we, this day, listened with ardour aod admiiation. From poetry up to eloquence, there is not a species...from that single speech, be culled and collected. Section "VI. .TUNIUS'S EULOGIUM ON LORD CHATHAM. I did not intend to make a public declaration of the... | |
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