| 1843 - 668 pages
...or sentiments with which he is moved into the breast of another." Again, " In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence properly so called." He is more explicit in another passage : " Be convinced of the truth of the object,... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...voice, here; a falling", there ; and a circumflex, elsewhere. Dr. Goldsmith says, that " to feel our subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence." It is certain, that in order to be eloquent, we must surrender ourselves to the spirk that stirs within... | |
| 1872 - 882 pages
...becomes timid, he sinks. Several rhetoricians have said, in the aphoristic words of Oliver Goldsmith, that " to feel one's subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence." Now perfect love casteth out all such fear as brings *; torment " and confusion of mind. The desire... | |
| Henry Ware - 1846 - 432 pages
...absorb and agitate the mind, that call forth those bursts of elo• De Or. iii. 31. quence by wliicli men are remembered as powerful orators, and that give...have regard to it, and never encumber himself nor distress his hearers with the attempt to interest them in a subject which excites at the moment only... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...voice, here ; a falling, there ; and a circumflex, elsewhere. Dr. Goldsmith says, that " to feel our subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence." It is certain, that in order to be eloquent, we must surrender ourselves to the spirit that stirs within... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...not feel, only prevents his rising nto that passion he would seem to feel. lq a word, to feel your ur pr prolerly so called, which I can offrr. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful parts of hit... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 pages
...not feel, only prevents his 'rising into that passion he would seem to feel. In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful parts of his... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...not feel, only prevents his rising into that passion. he would seem to fcel. In a word, to fcel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful parts of his... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 pages
...or sentiments with which he is moved into tie breast of another." Again : " In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence properly so called." He is more explicit in another passage : " Be convinced of the truth of the subject,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pages
...not feel, only prevents his rising into that passion he would seem to feel. In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful parts of his... | |
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