... 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
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos and sublimity of conception, to which we, this day, listened with ardour and admiration. From poetry up to eloquence, there is not a species... | |
| Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, heauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos...perfect specimen might not from that single speech he culled and collected." The task of selection from such a treasure of excellence is difficult, but... | |
| John Wilks - Great Britain - 1822 - 546 pages
...of knowledge, force of imagination, " propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and " elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of " style, pathos...there is not a species of composition of which " a compleat and perfect specimen might not, " from that single speech be culled and collected." And yet... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 566 pages
...strength of expression, to which they had 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 alluded, and which, he was persuaded,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 568 pages
...strength of expression, to which they had 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 alluded, and which, he was persuaded,... | |
| Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos...from that single speech be culled and collected." The task of selection from such a treasure of excellence is difficult, but the following apostrophe... | |
| Thomas Moore - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 570 pages
...strength of expression, to which they had 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 alluded, and which, he was persuaded,... | |
| Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1830 - 600 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction, strength and copiousness of style, pathos...might not, from that single speech, be culled and collected.1 And yet Sheridan as a moralist was as defective in principle as he was incorrect in practice.... | |
| Art - 1832 - 592 pages
...strength of expression, to which they had 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 other of the speech to which he had alluded." 368 RICHARD nniNSLEY... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...variety of knowledge, force of imagination, propriety and vivacity of allusion, beauty and elegance of diction," strength and copiousness of style, pathos and sublimity of conception, to which we this day listened with ardor and admiration. From poetry up to eloquence there is not a species of... | |
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