 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 584 pages
...oldeft and the ableft actors. His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and littered with inch energy of diction, and fuch dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated... | |
 | John Almon - 1792 - 458 pages
...theoldeft and the able ft actors, His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with fuch energy and diction, and fuch dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated tbofe who... | |
 | 1794 - 614 pages
...and the ableft actors, f His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and utterej with fuch energy of diction, and fuch dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated... | |
 | 1795 - 408 pages
...oldeft and the ableft adtors. His eloquence waf of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with fuch energy of dicHon, and fueh dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated thofe who weie... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 610 pages
...words of a contemporary statesman, " were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated...the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant of his sublime genius." 4 Among... | |
 | 1802 - 448 pages
...bis inveflives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diftion, and such dignity of ..-t'.ii and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the least able to encounter him. Their armi fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 714 pages
...perhaps the moft accurate. " His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with fuch energy of diction, and fuch dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated thofe, who... | |
 | 1805 - 608 pages
...and the ablest actors. t His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled it» the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives...were the most willing and the best able to encounter him.î Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant which bis genius gained... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 404 pages
...ablest actors*. His eloquence, was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,...intimidated those who were the most willing and 'the best * It is said that Sir Robert Walpole scarce heard the sound of; his voice in the House of Commons,... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 436 pages
...the ablest actors*. His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy ot diction, and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most... | |
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But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they... 
