 True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man,...  Faust: a tragedy - 第401页作者：Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 632 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | 1826 - 438 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of vokanic fir^s,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires,... | |
 | 1827 - 544 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if k come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 362 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
 | 1827 - 540 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it ; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth -Dictated, commanded,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires,... | |
 | 1827 - 684 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires,... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 页
...speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labour and learning may toil for it ; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way,...after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 页
...from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain, Words and phrases may 10 be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass...after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of 15 a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic... | |
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