 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...amply fulfilled in his own person what he requires in the genuine orator, when he lays down that ' eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.' He was by no means a solitary instance, in the last century, of a very young man becoming the mouthpiece... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...own person what he requires in. the genuine orator, when he lays down that ' eloquence must flow Jike a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.' He was by no means a solitary instance, in the last century, of a very young man becoming the mouthpiece... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...amply fulfilled in his own person what he requires in the genuine orator, when he lays down that ' eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.' He was by no means a solitary instance, in the last century, of a very young man becoming the mouthpiece... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...' feasts of reason and flow of soul ' by their reminiscences. ' Eloquence,' •says Bolingbroke, ' must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant...some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.' So must humour, and Sydney Smith's was so fed; yet it was seldom overpowering, and never exhausting,... | |
 | William Mathews - Orators - 1878 - 464 pages
...means which frequently seem to carry them from it." Again, in " The Spirit of Patriotism," he says: "Eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by...little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry all the rest of the year." Lord Lytton says truly of Bolingbroke, that his sentences " flow loose as... | |
 | Arthur Hassall - Great Britain - 1889 - 272 pages
...which was much admired by Lord Brougham, well carries out what Bolingbroke himself once said, that " eloquence must flow like a stream, that is fed by an abundant spring," and inclines me to believe that he dictated most of his writings to an amanuensis. 6 The whole of the eighth... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 pages
...than power that every dunce may use, or fraud that every knave may employ to lead them by the nose. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not sprout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...than power that every dunce may use, or fraud that every knave may employ to lead them by the nose. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not sprout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...than power that every dunce may use, or fraud that every knave may employ to lead them by the nose. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not sprout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. The famous... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - Orators - 1896 - 474 pages
...truthfully and beautifully says : " Eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant stream, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry all the rest of the year." The literary works of Bolingbroke undoubtedly resemble spoken eloquence... | |
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But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year. 
