 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue ; yet true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious...of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words (by what I can express) like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command,... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 514 pages
...species of Eloquence which MILTON describes, and You have long practised. " TRUE ELOQUENCE, says he, I find to be none, but " the serious and hearty love...mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire VOL. IV. B " to " to know good things, and with the dearest Charity to " infuse the knowledge of them... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 484 pages
...spirit, and an inflated style. For (to use th( words of a great master* of expression) TRUE ELO CIUENCE \ find to be none but the serious and hearty love of TRUTH: and that, whose mind soever is full, possessed with a fervent desire to know good thing* and with the dearest CHARITY to infuse the... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 404 pages
...gams of the Art: " True eloquence," says he, " I find ,to be none but the serious and hearty " J.OVE OF TRUTH : and that whose mind soever is " fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good " thinsrs, and with the DEAREST CHARITY to infuse " the knowledge of them to others, when such a man... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1817 - 276 pages
...expressions— Verbaque provisam rein mm in vita sequentur. Or, as Milton has admirably said—"True eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty...of them into others, WHEN SUCH, A MAN WOULD SPEAK, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and, in well•ordered... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 pages
...applied to Mr. Isaac Walton'* writings. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to • • be none bat the serious and hearty love of truth: And, that, •...of them into others; when such a man would speak, " his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about •' him at command, and in well-ordered... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...spirit which stirs within, is indeed the real secret of all eloquence. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into pthers,—when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble, airy servitors, trip about him... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1824 - 552 pages
...illustrious exemplification of his own remark, has a passage in his prose works to the same effect; "True eloquence I find to be none but the serious...soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to kniHv good things, and with tne dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 412 pages
...the truth, beautifully expressed by Milton. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none hut the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that whose...dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others,—when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue, yet true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious...of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command,... | |
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Or, as Milton has admirably said—" True eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth: and that, whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge... 
