 | 1826 - 438 pages
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...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... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 362 pages
...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...spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in schools the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1831 - 722 pages
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...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
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it It comes, if it come at all, like...from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic lie;-, •with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and 10 be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass...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,... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments,and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...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
...occasion. Affected passion, intense 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 the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original,... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1828 - 728 pages
...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 earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and dis* gust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, i their children, and their country,... | |
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Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after... 
