 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...  Essay on Warren Hastings - 176. oldalszerző: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 432 oldal
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and...richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 oldal
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and...richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 420 oldal
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and...richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 344 oldal
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great 5 age of Athenian eloquence.1 There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and...his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, 10 but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient... | |
 | New York State Stenographers' Association - 1892 - 656 oldal
...which were engaged the moat famous men of English history, such as Burke, who, Macaulay says, was, "in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern." There was also Fox, the great champion of the American colonists against those... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 260 oldal
...had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, 30 the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides....richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 460 oldal
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...to the capacity and taste of his hearers ; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 oldal
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and...richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 262 oldal
...had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, 30 the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides....richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed H on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 oldal
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and...richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
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