 | 1846 - 730 pagina’s
...indeed, a description of the real orator : for " eloquence" (as Bolingbroke has somewhere expressed it) " must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a ifrothy water on some gala dai/, but remain dry the rest of the year." Here, one wouid fancy,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 pagina’s
...for something weighty from his lips, and was seldom disappointed. "Eloquence," said Bolingbroke, " must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year." The encomium which Ben Jonson pronounced on Lord Bacon's speaking may be justly applied to Samuel Adams.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 682 pagina’s
...nobler superiority than power, which every dunce may use ; or fraud, which every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 pagina’s
...a nobler superiority than power, which every duace may use; or fraud, which every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth like a frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous orators of Greece... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pagina’s
...than power that every dunce may use or fraud that every knave may employ, to lead them by the nose. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed...frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the the rest of the year. — Bolinqbrohe. ccxvi. 'Tis the curse of mighty minds oppress'd, To think what... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 502 pagina’s
...Eloquence," says Bolingbroke, "must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not sprout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.* So must humour, and Sydney Smith's was so fed ; yet it was sddom overpowering, and never exhausting,... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont - 1856 - 436 pagina’s
...and an English philosopher and statesman, Bolingbroke, has said with regard to the same subject, " Eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring and not spout forth like a little frothy water on some gaudy day and remain dry the rest of the year." These apophthegms... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pagina’s
...that occupation upon the river Thames." DINNER-TABLE CONVERSATION. '• Eloquence," says Bolingbroke, "must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not sprout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year." So must... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 pagina’s
...Bolingbroke, "must flow like a stream that if fed by an abundant spring, and not sprout forth a little frochr water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year." So must humour, and Sydney Smith's was so ted ; yet it was -*-ldom overpowering, and never exhausting,... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pagina’s
...port by means which frequently seem to carry them from it. Or in the " Spirit of Patriotism" — " Eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an...little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry all the rest of the year." English is so essentially a spoken language, and so susceptible of idiomatic... | |
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But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. 
