 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist' in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for...and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion,... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - Forensic orations - 1901 - 776 pages
...defined perfectly by Mr. Webster, when he says: " True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...they will toil in vain. ' "Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1901 - 222 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Cora Marsland - Readers - 1902 - 272 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...aspire after it, but cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - Oratory - 1902 - 304 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - Orators - 1902 - 404 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 218 pages
...and from the subject and occasion. " Mere eloquence," said Webster, "does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it;, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from... | |
 | H. C. Beauchamp - Recitations - 1903 - 64 pages
...are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech; it cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may...vain, words and phrases may be marshaled in every form, but they cannot compass it; it must exist in the man, in the subject and in the occasion. Ardent... | |
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Clearness, force and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled... 
