 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1832 - 284 pages
...besetting sin of later days — they always overdid — never knowing or feeling when they had done enough. In nothing, not even in beauty of collocation and...their prodigious faculties of expression. A single phrase—sometimes a word—and the work is done—the desired impression is made, as it were, with... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1838 - 754 pages
...nothing, not even in beauty of colloca' tion and harmony of rhythm, is the vast superiority of tlie ' chaste, vigorous, manly style of the Greek orators...work is done ; the desired impression is made, as it wen1, ' with one stroke} there being nothing superfluous interposed to ' weaken the blow, or break... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Political science - 1839 - 514 pages
...besetting sin of later days-.—they always overdid—never knowing or feeling when they had done enough. In nothing, not even in beauty of collocation and...faculties of expression. A single phrase— sometimes a word—and the work is done—the •desired impression is made, as it were, with one stroke, there... | |
 | John Barras Hay - 1839 - 376 pages
...besetting sin of later days—they always overdid—never knowing or feeling when they had done enough. In nothing, not even in beauty of collocation and...their prodigious faculties of expression. A single phrase—sometimes a word—and the work is done—the desired impression is made, as it were, with... | |
 | England - 1839 - 876 pages
...them in his Inauyural Discourse. He has been wisely commending the great Greek orators for their " abstinent use of their prodigious faculties of expression....done — the desired impression is made, as it were, witli one stroke, there being nothing superfluous interposed to weaken the blow, or break its fall."... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...beauty, the perfection of matter with the most refined and chnstened style." And then he speaks of necks of the touched as they pass, whilst the first chaplain repeats, ' That We just advise the student who has read this to take up the best English translation of Demosthenes,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 392 pages
...illustrates, by his own 'fault, the practice of undue amplification, which he condemns as follows : "In nothing, not even in beauty of collocation and...conspicuous than in the abstinent use of their prodigious powers of expression. A single phrase — sometimes a word — and the work is done ; the desired impression... | |
 | Bible - 1870 - 824 pages
...rhetorical severity. " In nothing," says Lord Brougham, " is the vast superiority of the chaste, vigorous style of the Greek orators and writers more conspicuous...word, and the work is done, — the desired impression made, as it were, with one stroke ; there being nothing superfluous interposed to weaken the blow or... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1871 - 396 pages
...by his own fault, the practice of undue amplification, which he condemns as follows : " In nothinp, not even in beauty of collocation and harmony of rhythm,...conspicuous than in the abstinent use of their prodigious powers of expression. A single phrase — sometimes a word — and the work is done ; the desired impression... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1872 - 398 pages
...illustrates, by his own fault, the practice of undue amplification, which he condemns as follows : " In nothing, not even in beauty of collocation and harmony of rhythm, is tho vast superiority of the chaste, vigorous, manly stylo of the Greek orators and writers more conspicuous... | |
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In nothing, not even in beauty of collocation and harmony of rhythm, is the vast superiority of the chaste, vigorous, manly style of the Greek orators and writers more conspicuous than in the abstinent use of their prodigious faculties of expression.... 
