 | John Almon - 1810 - 404 pages
...declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and 'the best * It is said that Sir Robert Walpole scarce heard the sound of; his voice in the House of Commons,... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 766 pages
...and the graces of metaphorical and classical allusion." " His invectives," says Lord Chesterfield, " were terrible ; and uttered with such energy of diction,...intimidated those, who were the most willing, and the least able to encounter them. Their arms fell out of their hands ; and they ghrunk under the ascendant... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 748 pages
...metaphorical and classical allusion." " His invectives," says Lord Chesterfield, " were terrible 5 and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern...intimidated those, who were the most willing, and the least able to encounter them. Their arms fell out of their hands ; and they shrunk under the ascendant... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...declamatory way. But his invective* were 'terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hsrrtds, and they shrunk under the ascendant... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated...most willing and the best able to encounter him." Of Lord Chatham's literary productions no other except a short poem or two had appeared, till in 1804... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1815 - 598 pages
...dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated thofe who were the molt willing and the beft able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they 1 See Hume's Efiays, Vol. I. p. 109. Travels of Anacharfii, Vol. If. p. 116. Vol. V. p. 184. Ldand's... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...are, tory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated...most willing and the best able to encounter him." Of his literary productions only a short poem or two had appeared, till in 1804 Lord Grenville published... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 512 pages
...sudden flashes of wit and eloquence, which have been compared to the transient and dazzling splendour of lightning. " His invectives," to use the words...fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascend* ant of his sublime genius." * Among his eminent qualifications as an orator, that of turning... | |
 | William Coxe - Great Britain - 1820 - 496 pages
...sudden flashes of wit and eloquence, which have been compared to the transient and dazzling splendour of lightning. " His invectives," to use the words...best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of '5 their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant of his sublime genius." * Among his eminent qualifications... | |
 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...declamatory way. But his invective* were terrible, and uttered with such energy and diction, and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated...fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant^which his genius gained over theirs. In that assembly, where public good is so much talked,... | |
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His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and such dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those... 
