 The orator rolled himself up, as it were, in his chair, and gave the most unrestrained indulgence to his speech — and how fraught with acuteness and originality was that speech, and in what copious and eloquent periods did it flow! The auditors seemed...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 2531837Full view - About this book
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 386 pages
...eloquent periods did it flow ! The auditors seemed to be rapt in wonder and delight, as one conversation, more profound or clothed in more forcible language...Lady Hamilton. The speaker had been secretary to Sir Alexander Ball, governor of Malta—and a copious field was here afforded for the exercise of his colloquial... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1847 - 416 pages
...eloquent periods did it flow. The auditors seemed to be wrapt in wonder and delight, as one conversation, more profound or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue. He spoke nearly for two hours with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. As I returned homewards,... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...eloquent periods did it flow! The auditors seemed rapt in wonder and delight, as one conversation, more profound or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue. He spoke for nearly two hours with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. As I returned homewards... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...; and how fraught with acuteness and originality was that speech, and in what copious and eloquent periods did it flow. The auditors seemed to be wrapt in. wonder and delight, as one conversation, more profound or clothed in more forcible language than another fell from his tongue.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 pages
...originality wue that •peech, and in what copious periods did it flow ! The auditors seemed to be rapt in wonder and delight, as one observation more profound,...forcible language than another, fell from his tongue. For nearly two hours ho spoke with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. ... I regretted that I could... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 pages
...did it flow 1 The auditors веешел! to be rapt in wonder and delight, aa one observation morn profound, or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue. For nearly two hours he spoke with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. ... I regretted that I could... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1874 - 324 pages
...originality was that speech, and in what copious and eloquent periods did it flow ! The auditors seemed rapt in wonder and delight, as one observation more profound...forcible language than another fell from his tongue. He spoke for nearly two hours with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. Thinking and speaking were... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 pages
...periods did it flow ! The audience seemed to be wrapped in wonder and delight, as one conversation, more profound, or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue. He spoke nearly for two hours with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. TALFOURD. Instead, like... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 310 pages
...eloquent periods did it flow. The auditors seemed to be rapt in wonder and delight, as one conversation more profound or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue. He spoke nearly for two hours with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. As I returned homewards... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 342 pages
...going into rhetorical hysterics in reporting a conversation of Coleridge's to which he listened : " The auditors seemed to be wrapt in wonder and delight,...forcible language, than another fell from his tongue. . . . As I retired homeward I thought a SECOND JOHNSON had visited the earth to make wise the sons... | |
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