 Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant, indeed, or negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness...  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 157edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 pages
...of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination...his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1905 - 570 pages
...of Johnson and Burke. As Windham often appears hereafter, Macaulay's vignette of him may be cited. " There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared...his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham " ("Warren Hastings," Edinburgh Revittc, October... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 510 pages
...may together have a part in the resurrection of the just." Macaulay pronounces Burke, " in aptitude of comprehension, and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern." " With the exception of his writings upon the French revolution," says Lord Brougham, " an exception... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 702 pages
...of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modem. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 pages
...the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the- capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination...reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of his age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination...modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, ippeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - 358 pages
...gossip did not fail to remark. 9. There appeared the high-souled Windham, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed...exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, his eyes reverentially fixed on Burke. 4. Amplify the following simple sentences by the addition of... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pages
...of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination...his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest... | |
 | 1906 - 484 pages
...of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination...his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 216 pages
...of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination...his face beaming with ^intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest... | |
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