 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 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...Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept across their feelings and convictions. He certainly possessed above all moderns that union of reason,... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1900 - 274 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... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1897 - 318 sivua
...towered above him in the gloom. Upward, an adverb, modifies looked. 133 — 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence which formed the prince of orators. The subordinate clause, which formed, etc., modifies union. 133 — 9. Mark well my fall, and that1... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1907 - 868 sivua
...James Mackintosh has said that Charles James Pox "was the most Demosthenean sneaker 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.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 610 sivua
...influence over his hearers. " He forgot himself," says Sir James Mackintosh, " and every thing around him. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions." There is nothing iu his finest passages which would seem to answer to this description,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 sivua
...reason clearly at the highest pressure of emotion. He forgot himself and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction1. On the whole, Pitt was more favoured in his delivery than his competitor. Fox's clumsy... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 sivua
...reason clearly at the highest pressure of emotion. He forgot himself and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction.1 On the whole, Pitt was more favoured in his delivery than his competitor. Fox's clumsy... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1908 - 406 sivua
...reason clearly at the highest pressure of emotion. He forgot himself and everything around him. He thought only of his subject His genius warmed and...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction1. On the whole, Pitt was more favoured in his delivery than his competitor. Fox's clumsy... | |
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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... 
