 If he is brief, it is because few words suffice ; when he is lavish of them, still each word has its mark, and aids, not embarrasses, the vigorous march of his elocution. He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say; and his sayings pass into proverbs...  Catholic Reading Circle Review - Page 2991897Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Joseph Potter - 1866 - 288 pages
...them, still each word has its mark, and aids, not embarrasses, the vigorous march of his elocution. He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say; and...household words and idioms of their daily speech, which is tesselated with the rich fragments of his language, as we see in foreign lands the marbles of Roman... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 pages
...them, still each word has its mark, and aids, not embarrasses, the vigorous march of his elocution. He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say; and...household words and idioms of their daily speech, which is tesselated with the rich fragments of his language, as we see in foreign lands the marbles of Roman... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 474 pages
...elocution. He expresses what all feel, but what all cannot say, and his sayings pass into proverbs among the people, and his phrases become household words and...worked into the walls and pavements of modern palaces." * It follows from all this that there is no model style, and that the kind of style demanded in any... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...them, still each word has its mark, and aids, not embarrasses, the vigorous march of his elocution. He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say ; and his sayings pass into proverbs among his ^eople, and his phrases become household words and idioms of their daily speech, which is tesselated... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...characteristic gift, in a large sense, the faculty of expression. .... He expresses what all feel and all cannot say, and his sayings pass into proverbs...phrases become household words and idioms of their daily speech."1 In this manner the noblest deeds of heroism and the purest acts of virtue are embalmed by... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 pages
...them, still each word has its mark, and aids, not embarrasses, the vigorous march of his elocution. He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say, and his sayings pass into proverbs amongst his people, and * Lectures and Essays on University Subjects : Lecture on Literature. his phrases... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 pages
...still ' each word has its mark, and aids, not embar' rasses, the vigorous march of his elocution. ' He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say, ' and his sayings pass into proverbs amongst his ' people, and his phrases become household ' words and idioms of their daily speech, which... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 326 pages
...people, and his phrases become household words and idioms of their daily speech, which is tesselated with the rich fragments of his language, as we see...worked into the walls and pavements of modern palaces. MS Such preeminently is Shakespeare among ourselves ; such preeminently Virgil among the Latins ; such... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 338 pages
...vigorous march of his elocution. He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say ; and his sayings MO pass into proverbs among his people, and his phrases...household words and idioms of their daily speech, which is tesselated with the rich fragments of his language, as we see in foreign lands the marbles of Roman... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1902 - 324 pages
...them, still each word has its mark, and aids, not embarrasses, the vigorous march of his elocution. He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say ; and his sayings MO pass into proverbs among his people, and his phrases become household words and idioms of their... | |
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