 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 oldal
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 oldal
...state : Whom David's love with honours did adorn, «o That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thought : Endued by...nature, and by learning taught, To move assemblies, who but only tried a man of wit and parts, not a genius. His poems are feeble and flimsy, notwithstanding... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 oldal
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 oldal
...state : Whom David's love with honours did adorn, ^ That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham en who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side : "* Nor chose alone, but turn'd the... | |
 | 1871 - 652 oldal
...he nearest to a Mirabeau or a Talleyrand? Macaulay, referring to the debates on the Exclusion Bill, says : ' The power of Shaftesbury over large masses...orator, and, judging from the tone and style of his speeches as well as from the recorded effects of some of them, we should infer that what the brilliant... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 oldal
...Talleyrand? Macaulay, referring to the debates on the Exclusion Bill, says : ' The power of Shal'tesbury Shaftesbury over large masses was unrivalled. Halifax...orator, and, judging from the tone and style of his speeches as well as from the recorded effects of some of them, we should infer that what the brilliant... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 oldal
...Talleyrand? Macaulay, referring to the debates on the Exclusion Bill, says : ' The power of Shaftesbury Shaftesbury over large masses was unrivalled. Halifax...orator, and, judging from the tone and style of his speeches as well as from the recorded effects of some of them, we should infer that what the brilliant... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 oldal
...state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 oldal
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 oldal
...state; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
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Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies... 
