 | 1877 - 588 Seiten
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern."... | |
 | 1842 - 654 Seiten
...for the duties of a public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his escellem sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of...to the capacity and taste of his hearers ; but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | 1843 - 582 Seiten
...criminal himself, and, more than all, the delineation of the remarkable train by which he is surrounded. " There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes...to the capacity and taste of his hearers ; but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | 1853 - 458 Seiten
...and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hypcrides. There was Burke, ignorant, indeed, of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity of his hearers ; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 772 Seiten
...justice to Sir Archibald's original genins. This is how Mr. Macaulay describes great men: — There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but iti amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gabriel Sigmond - 1857 - 592 Seiten
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension, and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern."... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 Seiten
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 Seiten
...speakers such as perhaps had not appealed together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 Seiten
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every other orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1866 - 262 Seiten
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
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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... 
