 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 256 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... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 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." — Quarterly Review. " In the most imperfect relic of Fox's speeches," said Ersinne,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 sivua
...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... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 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." — Quarterly Review. " In the most imperfect relic of Fox's speeches," said Erskine,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 sivua
...him the most powerful reasoner of the age.' ' He possessed beyond all moderns,' wrote Mackintosh, ' that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence which formed the prince of orators.' ' Had he been bred to the bar,' wrote Philip Francis, ' he would in my judgment have made himself in... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 sivua
...answered in the affirmative he would say : " Then it was a bad one." Says Sir James Mackintosh : " He certainly possessed above all moderns that union...and vehemence which formed the prince of orators." And Edmund Burke pronounced him the most brilliant and accomplished debater that the world had ever... | |
 | 1883 - 666 sivua
...meets within its course. " 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." He had a shrill voice, but some of the undertones in it were very sweet. His pronunciation... | |
 | Frank Van Buren Irish - 1883 - 128 sivua
...-prodigal VourT} ^5T° ' T \of_». (and) virtue and. (of)-ahs. Itch] in— If. 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence, which formed the prince of orators. 8. He I possessed of— reason, C»f) — simplicity, C»f)-veliemenee. - - - -- which prince tftf-l... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 sivua
...some time than he was changed into another being: he forgot himself and every thing around him: he ners alone, Th convictions. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Perry - 1887 - 644 sivua
...James Mackintosh has said that Charles James Fox " was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union...and vehemence which formed the prince of orators." Cicero was a very different orator from Demosthenes, as different as the Romans were from the Grecians.... | |
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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... 
