 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
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1954 - 443 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, fixed in deep surprise, Our ears refute the censures of our eyes." Nor need... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1995 - 466 páginas
...with Robert Potter, not John Potter. It does not appear to have survived. i Pope, Iliad, iii. 283-6. "But, when he speaks, what Elocution flows! Soft as...Art; Melting they fall, and sink into the Heart!" If anything in such a couplet could be objected to, it would be the term copious; for as yet I have... | |
 | Cornelia D. J. Pearsall - 2008 - 408 páginas
...example lines from the Iliad: "The eloquence of Ulysses is described by the help of a similitude — Soft as the fleeces of descending snows The copious...with easy art; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart!54 I shall return in chapter 3 to this simile because the oratorical brilliance of Homer's Ulysses... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Arthur Purefoy Irwin Samuels - 1923 - 418 páginas
...in persuasion skill' d Words sweet as Honey, from his Lips distill'd." POPE.S Hom., Book i, 1. 331. "But when he speaks, what Elocution flows! Soft as...fall, and sink into the Heart! Wondring we hear, and fixed in deep Surprise, Our Ears refute the Censure of our Eyes." POPE'S Horn., Book 3, 1. 283. In... | |
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