 True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. 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,...  American Quarterly Review - Page 313edited by - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...4. Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not g6 ; keep her,ibr she is thy 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in...and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass 3 it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - Bible as literature - 1859 - 448 pages
...without the third. Says a high authority, Mr. Webster, " true eloquence does not consist in mere speech. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Such a subject Demosthenes had in the liberty of Greece, and such an occasion in the threatened invasion... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...learning may toil for it, but they toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every s '._v, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in thi subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense ex. • ;. sion, the pomp of declamation,... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, — they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | 1860 - 836 pages
...passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they can not reach it It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion." Profound emotional sensibility in a speaker would seem to imply another necessary condition of eloquence... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...conviction. 2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass8 it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...it', but they will toil in vain*. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way', but they can not compass' it. It must exist in the man\ in the subject', and in the occasion1. Aifected passion1, intense expression1, the pomp of declamation*, all may aspire after it'... | |
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