 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
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 364 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... | |
 | 1892
...near 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 428 pages
...near 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 344 pages
...rhetorical hysterics in reporting a conversation of Coleridge's to which he listened : " The anditors seemed to be wrapt in wonder and delight, as one observation...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 350 pages
...rhetorical hysterics in reporting a conversation of Coleridge's to which he listened: "The anditors seemed to be wrapt in wonder and delight, as one observation...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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1893 - 446 pages
...employed diction so elegant that " his audience seemed wrapped in wonder and delight, as one conversatian more profound, or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue." On the other hand, Dante, Chaucer, Milton, Gray, Southey, and Dryden, were poor conversationalists.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1893 - 464 pages
...employed diction so elegant that "his audience seemed wrapped in wonder and delight, as one conversatian more profound, or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue." On the other hand, Dante, Chaucer, Milton, Gray, Southey, and Dryden, were poor conversationalists.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1895 - 192 pages
...such elegant diction that his " auditors seemed wrapped in wonder and delight, as one conversation, more profound or clothed in more forcible language than another, fell from his tongue." So far as America is concerned, Washington and most of our early statesmen and literary men were inferior... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1848 - 462 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.... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1848 - 408 pages
...; and how fraught with acutencss 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.... | |
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