 He forgot himself and every thing around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction.  The enthusiasts - Sida 15efter Robert Plumer Ward - 1839Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 476 sidor
...and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of...the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes." Lord Brougham in contradiction to this last sentence remarks: " There never... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1900 - 274 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 606 sidor
...and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of...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, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 sidor
...and everything around him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of...irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction1. On the whole, Pitt was more favoured in his delivery than his competitor. Fox's clumsy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1809 - 498 sidor
...Hortensius, but even with that of Demosthenes ; and, acr cording to Sir James Mackintosh, Mr. Fox ' certainly possessed above all moderns that union of...the prince of orators. He was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes.' Considering this judgment as only comparative, we feel no great inclination... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1908 - 406 sidor
...and everything around him. He thought only of his subject His genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of...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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