 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 ... - Page 961805 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...Hamlet, act iii, scene 2. SHAKESPEARE. Lack-lustre eye. As You Like It, act ii, scene 7. SHAKESPEARE. 1 But when he speaks, what elocution flows Soft as the...easy art, Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! Iliad, hook iii. POPE'S translation. Last, not least.1 King Lear, act i, scene 1. SHAKESPEARE. Lay... | |
 | Historic buildings - 1855 - 588 pages
...stand, Nor raised his head nor stretched his sceptred hand; But when he speaks, what elocution flows I Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...easy art ; Melting they fall and sink into the heart 1 " His voice is described as rich and melodious. His personal appearance is thus given by Wm. Sullivan... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...ground As one unskilled, or dumb, he seemed to stand. Nor raised his head, nor stretched his sceptered hand. But when he speaks, what elocution flows, Soft...descending snows, The copious accents fall with easy ait. Melting, they fall, and sink into the heait. Wondering, we hear, and fixed in deep surprise, j... | |
 | Quintilian - Oratory - 1856 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...was it to listen to a voice of such surpassing melody! The utterance of Mr. Clay was most charming: " But when he speaks, what elocution flows. Soft as...easy art, Melting they fall and sink into the heart." What astonishing effects have been produced by such a voice! Much" of the force, splendor, and fascination... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1857 - 416 pages
...spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." Homer, speaking of the eloquence of Ulysses : — " Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart !" Pope's translation. Milton, describing the standard of the reprobate angels, says that it — "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 506 pages
...when he speaks, what elocution flows ! Soft as the flceces of descending snows, The copious aecents nd Routledge ! Wondering we hear, and fix'd in dcep surprise, Oar ears refute the censure of our eyes." The king... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
..." He came like night.'1'' The eloquence of Ulysses is described by the help of a similitude : — " Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! " The Figures of Similarity are these : — 1. Simile, or Comparison. 2. Metaphor. 3. Personification.... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 pages
...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' ' Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart.' Pope's translation. Milton, describing the standard of the reprobate angels, says that it — ' Shone... | |
 | United States. 41st Cong., 2d sess., 1869-1870 - 1870 - 98 pages
...eloquence, though ordinarily Homer's description of the oratory of Ulysses might be partially applied: "But when he speaks what elocution flows, Soft as the fleeces of descending snows." It may be said of him what was once remarked of a distinguished French orator, that he said just what... | |
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