 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 496 pages
...Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea, And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy. •' TRUE eloquence I find to be none but the serious and...he would wish, fall aptly into their own places." — MILTON. ELOQUENCE I DO not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 472 pages
...heard, Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea, And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy. "TRUE eloquence I find to be none but the serious...he would wish, fall aptly into their own places." — MILTON. I DO not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 482 pages
...melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." But, whilst Milton was conscious of possessing this...devout. He is rightly dear to mankind, because in VOL. IV. F him, among so many perverse and partial men of genius, — in him humanity rights itself;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 490 pages
...melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." But, whilst Milton was conscious of possessing this...devout. -He is rightly dear to mankind, because in VOL. iv. F him, among so many perverse and partial men of genius, — in him humanity rights itself;... | |
 | William Morison - 1909 - 172 pages
...intellectual gifts resolved themselves for him into depth of moral passion. " True eloquence," he says, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...he would wish, fall aptly into their own places." Milton was never slow in sacrificing the delight which genius finds in its own exercise at the stern... | |
 | 1910 - 768 pages
...such a man would speak, his words (by what I can express), like so many nimble and airy >-ervitors, trip about him at command, and, in wellordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places."—From {Ji<Apology for Smectymnmts. The whole question does, indeed, finally reduce itself... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1913 - 44 pages
...words. The student should pray with Milton that his words ' like so many nimble and airy servitors will trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, will fall aptly into their own places.' 1 I hope for the best, although I do not underrate the difficulties.... | |
 | Hazel Louise Brown - 1914 - 222 pages
...follow but too fast; he will pull them after him if they do not voluntarily follow." Milton says : "True eloquence I find to be none but the serious...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into' their places." w dbtpiPeia. The word is used of the exactness and high finish of style of written speeches.... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1922 - 344 pages
...convictions, and needs to restore his spirit with the passage in which Milton says: 'For me, readers, although I cannot say that I am utterly untrained...as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places. ' 1 The whole question does, indeed, finally reduce itself to one of pedagogical faith, to a belief... | |
 | Ida Langdon - 1924 - 362 pages
...XII. 11. XXI. RHETORIC A. GENERAL REFERENCES TO RHETORIC. 1. An Apology, Works 3.322: For me. Readers, although I cannot say that I am utterly untrained...as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places 2. Education, Works 4.389: And now lastly will be the time to read with them those organic, arts which... | |
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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... 
