 The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object —...  The National Quarterly Review - Page 312edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 240 pages
...eloquent; then self devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logte, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - 1855 - 510 pages
...maintained a dominion which none could dispute with him. He realized Mr. Webster's description of oratory: "The clear conception outrunning the deductions of...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object : this, this is eloquence,... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1855 - 300 pages
...forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force/' that eloquence which, combines " the clear conception, outrunning the deductions of...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing eveiy feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object;" that eloquence, which... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1855 - 520 pages
...presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clcai conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is •sloquence... | |
 | 1855 - 506 pages
...is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the linn resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right ojiward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1856 - 276 pages
...words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence...speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object — this, this is eloquence... | |
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