 The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object —...  Webster and His Master-pieces - Page 204by Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater... | |
 | John Frost - 1826 - 326 pages
...lost their power, rhetorick is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius, itself, then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of...The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logick, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the daunt20 less spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 376 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater... | |
 | 1827 - 544 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right otfward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater... | |
 | 1827 - 544 pages
...vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as iu the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater... | |
 | 1827 - 572 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of...The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logie, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric ia vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object—this, this is eloquence ; or, rather, it is something greater... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of...eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or, rather, it is something greater... | |
 | 1827 - 684 pages
...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of...beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and Eulogies on Adams and Jefferson. [ArntL. urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object —... | |
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