 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue ; yet true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious...into others, when such a man would speak, his words (by what I can express) like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command, and in well-ordered... | |
 | 1823 - 616 pages
...the Greek teachers) is pos' sessed with a fervent desire to know good things and with the • devout charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, ' when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can , ex' press, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him ' at command, and,... | |
 | 1824 - 602 pages
...spirit which stirs within, is indeed the real secret of all eloquence. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...them into others, — when such a man would speak, hig words, like so many nimble, airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...spirit which stirs within, is indeed the real secret of all eloquence. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into pthers, — when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble, airy servitors, trip about... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1824 - 552 pages
...illustrious exemplification of his own remark, has a passage in his prose works to the same effect; "True eloquence I find to be none but the serious...soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to kiniw good things, and with tne dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such... | |
 | Henry Ware - Extemporaneous preaching - 1824 - 114 pages
...spirit which stirs within, is indeed the real secret of all eloquence. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that whose mind soever ia fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good tilings, and with the dearest charity to infuse... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 476 pages
...expressions — Verlmque provisom ran nan invila segutntar' Or, as Milton has admirably said — " True eloquence I find to be none, but the serious...of them into others, WHEN SUCH A MAN WOULD SPEAK, hi> words, like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command, and, in well-ordered files,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue, yet true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious...into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1826 - 146 pages
...quality is, I trust, not improperly applied to Walton's writings. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...knowledge of them into others ; when such a man would vades the whole, richly compensates the want of elegance, and rhetorical embellishment4. Truth is never... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1826 - 160 pages
...quality is, I trust, not improperly applied to Walton's writings. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...knowledge of them into others ; when such a man would vades the whole, richly compensates the want of elegance, and rhetorical embellishment2. Truth is never... | |
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... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such... 
