 ... in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.  Warren Hastings - Page 113by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1877 - 588 pages
...perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides...imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern." Edmund Burke honoured Beaconsfield with his residence for more than a quarter of a century — the... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides....to the capacity and taste of his hearers ; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the English Hyperides....style to the capacity and taste of his hearers; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...tenderest and most considerate friend. As yet, the star of Burke, who was to rise, according to Macaulay, "in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator ancient or modern," was below the horizon. He was then twenty-three years old, reading for the bar, contributing to papers... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the English Hyperides....style to the capacity and taste of his hearers; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...to be one of the conductors of the impeachment. But there stood Fox and Sheridan. There was Burke, in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination,...superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There appeared the finest gentleman of the age — his face beaming with intelligence and spirit — the... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hypcrides. There was Burke, ignorant, indeed, of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity of his hearers ; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the BngVOL. iv — 15 lish Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant, indeed, or negligent...to the capacity and taste of his hearers ; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...to be one of the conductors of the impeachment. But there stood Fox and Sheridan. There was Burke, in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination,...superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There appeared the finest gentleman of the age — his face beaming with intelligence and spirit — the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 772 pages
...Archibald's original genins. This is how Mr. Macaulay describes great men: — There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides....style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but iti amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
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