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" ... 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 111
1808
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

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...
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The Percy anecdotes, by Sholto and Reuben Percy. (Eloquence).

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...
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Memoirs of Her Majesty Queen Caroline Amelia Eliz., Consort of ..., Volume 1

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...
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Memoirs of the life of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1

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,...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1

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,...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 2

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...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1

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,...
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Memoirs of George the Fourth: Descriptive of the Most Interesting ..., Volume 1

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....
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The Georgian Era: The royal family. The pretenders and their adherents ...

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...
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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

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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