 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 sivua
...influence over his hearers. - He forgot himself,' says Sir James Mackintosh, ' and everything around him. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions.' There is nothing in his finest passages which would seem to answer to this description,... | |
 | 1858 - 594 sivua
...influence over his hearers. ' He forgot himself,' says Sir James Mackintosh, ' and everything around him. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions.' There is nothing in his finest passages which would seem to answer to this description,... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 sivua
...for some time than he was changed into another being. He forgot himself and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence,... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1866 - 426 sivua
...audience ; torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Deruosthenean speaker since Demosthenes."* Lord Brougham has criticised this comparison of Fox to Demosthenes,... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1866 - 552 sivua
...Grant, to which Fox replied at the moment with wonderful effectt " Fox's Speeches," vol. ip xiii. as lie went on ; he darted fire into his audience ; torrents...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 sivua
...looked upward at the rugged heights that towered above him in the gloom. 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence, which formed the prince of orators. 9. Mark well my fall, and that that ruined me. — Shakespeare. 10. The jingling of the guinea helps... | |
 | John Spencer Pearsall - 1869 - 248 sivua
...hesitating manner; yet, says Sir James Mackintosh, " he forgot himself and everything around him ; he darted fire into his audience ; torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions." Edmund Burke, in addition to other defects, had a delivery harsh and frigid, and his... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 872 sivua
...other statesman lias had so large an influence upon the politics of England. Mackintosh says of him : " He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union...which formed the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthcnean speaker since Demosthenes." — See " Character of the late Charles James Fox," by Dr.... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 sivua
...influence over his hearers. ' He forgot himself,' says Sir James Mackintosh, 'and everything around him. He darted fire into his audience: torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions.' SHERIDAN. At first Sheridan was far from being a success in the House of Commons. His... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 sivua
...for some time than he was changed into another being. He forgot himself and everything around him. He — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have lire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings... | |
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... and even a consummate judge could only have been struck with the exquisite justness of his ideas, and the transparent simplicity of his manners. But no sooner had he spoken for some time, than he was changed into another being. He forgot himself and... 
