...dictates of reason to the imagination, for the better moving of the appetite and will. — Lord Bacon. To feel one's subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence. — Oliver Goldsmith. Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learnt in the schools; the...

...antagonists, and became sometimes exquisitely provoking and sometimes terrific to them." " To feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer," are the words of Goldsmith ; they embody a treatise on elocution....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...successful were those in which he most entirely abandoned himself to the impulses of his feelings. Every speaker's experience will bear testimony to...subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are two of the best rules of eloquence.' There can be no doubt that the platform has done touch to improve...

...preservative against writing ill, or more potent charm for writing well.' And so Goldsmith : 'To feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence.' Elsewhere he says: 'Eloquence is not in the words, but in the subject; and in great concerns, the more...

...preservative against writing ill, or more potent charm for writing well.' And so Goldsmith : ' To feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence. ' Elsewhere Goldsmith says : ' Eloquence is not in the words, but in the subject ; and in great concerns,...

...of narrative and character.' Many a man has said or written much as Goldsmith did : ' To feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence.' When Coleridge wishes to praise Southey's style, he says : ' It is as if he had been speaking to you...