 A man can never speak too well where he speaks not too obscure. Long and distended clauses are both tedious to the ear and difficult for their retaining. A sentence well couched, takes both the sense and the understanding.  Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political - Página 66por Owen Felltham - 1832 - 316 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 306 páginas
...both, the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart^ rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity put into apt significants, might ravish as \ve]l as poetry. " The weighty lines men find upon the stage, I am persuaded, have been the means to... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 312 páginas
...as well as poetry. "The weighty lines men find upon the stage, I am persuaded, have been the means to draw away the pulpit's followers. We complain of drowsiness at a sermon, when a play of doubled length leads us on still with alacrity. But the fault is not all in ourselves. If we saw divinity... | |
 | John Bate - 1884 - 644 páginas
...both the senses and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches, which are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity,...apt significants, might ravish as well as poetry. They are sermons, but of baser metal, which lead the eyes to slumber. He answered well, that after... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 páginas
...both the senses and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches. which are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity,...apt significants, might ravish as well as poetry. They are sermons but of baser metal, which lead the eyes to slumber. He answered well that, after often... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 páginas
...both the senses and the understanding. I love not those cart -rope speeches. which are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity,...apt significants, might ravish as well as poetry. They are sermons but of baser metal, which lead the eyes to slumber. He answered well that, after often... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 páginas
...both the senses and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches, which are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity,...apt significants, might ravish as well as poetry. They are sermons, but of baser metal, which lead the eyes to slumber. He answered well that, after... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 páginas
...both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the E? memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity,...complain of drowsiness at a sermon ; when a play of doubled length leads us on still with alacrity. . But the fault is not all in ourselves. If we saw... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 páginas
...both the senses and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches. which are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that divinity,...apt significants, might ravish as well as poetry. They are sermons but of baser metal, which lead the eyes to slumber. He answered well that, after often... | |
 | 1921 - 726 páginas
...sometimes presents, he is very complimentary in his references to actors and the drama, asserting that " the weighty lines men find upon the stage, I am persuaded, have been the lures to draw away the Pulpits followers." Ealph Knevet in an interesting epistle to the Society of Florists, prefixed to... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 páginas
...both the sense and the understanding. I love not those Cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not but that Divinity,...poetry. The weighty lines men find upon the Stage, I am perswaded, have been the lures to draw away the Pulpit's followers. We complain of drowziness at a... | |
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