 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 a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous,...  Faust: a tragedy - Sivu 401tekijä(t) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 632 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 sivua
...comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native...contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 sivua
...it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The...contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1852 - 612 sivua
...force. The grace* taught in the schools the costly ornaments und studied contrivances of j-peec.li, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, und their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric i *... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 sivua
...from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires, with spontancous, original, native foree. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of spcech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 206 sivua
...comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native...contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent; then self devotion is.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native...contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent; then self-devotion is... | |
 | Samuel P. Lyman - 1853 - 276 sivua
...comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires with spontaneous, original, native...decision of the hour ; then words have lost their power, and rhetoric is vain, and all the elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 sivua
...comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native...contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent ; then self-devotion is... | |
 | 1854 - 576 sivua
...from the earth, or the bursting forth of voleanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native foree. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments...contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 526 sivua
...oiaies, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires with spontaneous, original, native...decision of the hour ; then words have lost their power, and rhetoric is vain, and all the elaborate oratory is contemptible. Even genius itself then feels... | |
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