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" 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. "
Mental Discipline: With Reference to the Acquisition and Communication of ... - Page 213
by Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - 320 pages
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 480 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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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 538 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 eloquenee, properly so called, which I can offer. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 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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Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 610 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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Biographical sketch. Poetical extracts. Miscellaneous essays. From The bee ...

Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...not feel, only prevents his rising into that passion he would seem to feel. In a word, to reel 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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Oliver Goldsmith, His Friends and Critics: A Lecture

James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 pages
...life into all, and inspires his audience with a part of his own enthusiasm. 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." I cannot for your and my own profit, forbear quoting another...
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The Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 29

1872 - 822 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 %1 torment " and confusion of mind. The desire...
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Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary

James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pages
...life into all, and inspires his audience with a part of his own enthusiasm. 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." I cannot for your and my own profit, forbear qnoting another...
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Sacred Rhetoric: Or, Composition and Delivery of Sermons

Henry Jones Ripley - 1869 - 276 pages
...his favorite topics. We see it in deliberative assemblies ; where 'it is those grand questions, wMch excite an intense interest, and absorb and agitate...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...
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A manual of expressive reading

John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 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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