 He was not eloquent, in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by the shallow stream of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written ; but his...  De Quincey's Writings - Page 166by Thomas De Quincey - 1850Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...shrunk rebuked into deep silence. He was not eloquent VOL. i. k in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by...of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written ; but his deep voice and easnest manner... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...shrunk rebuked into deep silence. He was not eloquent VOL. i. k in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by...of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written ; but his deep voice and easnest manner... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...delicate hearers shrunk rebuked into deep sjlence. He was not eloquent in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by...of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written ; but his deep voice and earnest manner... | |
 | 1836 - 758 pages
...hearers shrunk reIraked into deep silence. He was not eloquent in the true sense of the term ; for bi> thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by the...of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written ; but his deep voice and earnest manner... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...delicate hearers shrunk rebuked into deep silence. He was not eloquent in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by...of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written: but his deep voice and earnest manner... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...delicate hearers shrunk rebuked into deep silence. He was not eloquent in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by...of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written : but his deep voice and earnest manner... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 252 pages
...hearers shrunk, rebuked, into deep silence. He was not eloquent, in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by...of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written ; but his deep voice and earnest manner... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 342 pages
...hearers shrunk, rebuked, into deep silence. He was not eloquent, in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by...of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written ; but his deep voice and earnest manner... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...untrained instincts of keen mother-wit,—whence should Hazlitt have had the materials for great thinking 1 It is through the collation of many abortive voyages...stream of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse;"—an explanation which leaves us in doubt whether Hazlitt forfeited his chanceof eloquence... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...sufficient abo as a reason why he could nut have been a comprehensive thinker. " He was not eloquent," »ays the Sergeant, •' in the true sense of the term."...excitement can rouse ;" — an explanation which leaves as in doubt whether Hazlitl forfeited his chance of eloquence by accommodating himself to this e»enuig's... | |
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