 But, when he speaks, what elocution flows! Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious accents fall, with easy art; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart! Wondering we hear, and fix'd in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censure of our...  Avenia, Or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and ... - Página 961805 - 358 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 98 páginas
...though ordinarily Homer's description of the oratory of Ulysses might be partially applied: "But wheu he speaks what elocution flows, Soft as the fleeces of descending snows." It may be said of him what was once remarked of a distinguished French orator, that he said just what... | |
 | Acrostics - 1871 - 312 páginas
...Crossed with as free a span the vault of heaven, As when twelve tribes knelt silently aloof." 8. " What elocution flows ; Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious accents fall with gentle art." 4. "In an evil hour, and a luckless night, From Garci's halls did he take his flight,... | |
 | 1872 - 498 páginas
...souls, His gentle eloquence like balm distils, And the sooth' d heart with secret pleasure fills ; The copious accents fall with easy art, Melting they fall, and sink into the heart. — Pope. THE CHKISTIAN PILGBIMAGE. IF men have been termed pilgrims, and life a journey, then we may... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 494 páginas
...loud, Like thunders rolling from a distant cloud." Nor raised his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand ; But, when he speaks, what elocution flows ! Soft as the fleeces of descending snows,10 The copious accents fall, with easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! Wondering... | |
 | Quintilian - 1876 - 518 páginas
...unskill'd or dumb, he seemed to stand, Nor rais'd his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand ; Kut, when he speaks, what elocution flows ; Soft as the...art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart. greater sweetness can certainly be imagined ; but desiring to give a notion of the highest power of... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1877 - 218 páginas
...ground ; As one unskilled or dumb, he seemed to stand, Nor rais'd his head, nor stretched his sceptred hand. But when he speaks, what elocution flows ! '...easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! Wondering we hear, and, fixed in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censures of our eyes." k Nor... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 páginas
...ground, 280 As one unskill'd or dumb, he seem'd to stand, Nor raised his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand : But, when he speaks, what elocution flows !...easy art; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart! Wondering we hear, and, fix'd in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censure of our eves.'* The king... | |
 | Homer - 1878 - 596 páginas
...280 ' As one unskill'd or dumb, he seem'd to stand, ' Nor rais'd his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand ; ' But when he speaks, what elocution flows...descending snows, ' The copious accents fall, with easy art ; 285 ' Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! ' Wondering we hear, and, fix'd in deep surprise,... | |
 | Where, Who - 1878 - 186 páginas
...JOHN Non1us, The Parting (xvii. Cent.). But when he speaks, what elocution flows Soft as the Heeces of descending snows. The copious accents fall with...easy art, Melting they fall, and sink into the heart. POPE'S Translation of Iliad, bk. iii. Linked sweetness, long drawn out. MILTON, IS Allegro. Little... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1880 - 284 páginas
...ground ; As one unskilled or dumb, he seemed to stand, Nor rais'd his head, nor stretched his sceptred hand. But when he speaks, what elocution flows ! Soft...easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! Wondering we hear, and, h'xed in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censure of our eyes." It will... | |
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