 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
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 páginas
...ground, As one unskilled or dumb, he seemed to stand, Nor raised 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 censure of our eyes. ODYSSEY.... | |
 | Peking Oriental Society - 1885 - 226 páginas
...might appropriate the words which Antenor there uses with \ reference to Uie eloquence of Ulysses : The copious accents fall, with easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! Wondering we hear, and fix'd in deep surprise.— It was my intention to insert here a comparison... | |
 | William T. Ross - 1887 - 362 páginas
...might — A June without warning and blown roses at night ! Overland Train. Benj. F, Taylor. STYLE. But when he speaks, what Elocution flows ! Soft as...easy art. Melting they fall, and sink into the heart. Iliad, Book III. Homer [Pope's Tr.] THE Colloquial constitutes the basis of all other styles. It is... | |
 | William T. Ross - 1890 - 396 páginas
...blown roses at night! Cntrland Train. Benj. F. Taylor STYLE. Bnt when he speaks, what Elocution flows1 Soft as the fleeces of descending snows: The copious...easy art. Melting they fall, and sink into the heart. Iliad, Booh III. Homer {Pope's Tr.] THE Colloquial constitutes the basis of all other styles. It is... | |
 | Quintilian - 1891 - 540 páginas
...As one unskill'd or dumb, he seemed to stand, Nor rais'd his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand j But, when he speaks, what elocution flows ; Soft as...The copious accents fall, with easy art ; Melting theyfall, and sink into the heart. 148 QuiNTruAJr. [B xn. greater sweetness can certainly be imagined... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1891 - 626 páginas
...modest eyes he fixed upon the ground ; But when he speaks, what elocution flows, Soft as the lleeces of descending snows ! The copious accents fall with...art, Melting they fall, and sink into the heart.' ' He may have the gift of speech,' said Seneca ; ' many Orientals have. But it is monstrous to suppose... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1893 - 394 páginas
...find out my own thoughts, as a schoolboy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. (57) Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart. (58) They have Moses and the prophets. (59) Life is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may... | |
 | Michael Clarke - 1897 - 272 páginas
...ground; As one unskilled or dumb, he seem'd to stand, Nor raised his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand; But, when he speaks, what elocution flows! Soft...easy art; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart! " POFE, Iliad, Book III. But the eloquence of Ulysses was of no avail. King Priam, blinded by his love... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 páginas
...J91 As one unskill'd or dumb, he eeem'd to stand, 281 Nor rais'd his head, nor etretch'd his sceptred hand; But when he speaks, what elocution flows! Soft...fall, and sink into the heart! Wond'ring we hear, and, fiz'd in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censure of our eyes.' The King then ask'd (as yet the camp... | |
 | Quintilian - 1902 - 544 páginas
...ground ; As one unskill'd or dumb, he seemed to stand, Nor rais'd his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand ; But, when he speaks, what elocution flows ;...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... | |
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