 | Thomas Harrower - 1885 - 334 páginas
...THE TEACHERS OF ELOCUTION TO GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. GLASGOW: ROBT. L. HOLMES, 3 AND 5 DUNLOP STREET. " If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive ; If from the soul the language does not come, In vain you strive — Toil on for ever at set phrase of Elocution, But never hope to stir the hearts... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1887 - 526 páginas
...How can we learn to sway the minds of men .•• By eloquence ? to rule them, or persuade ? Faust. If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive ; If...you strive — in vain you study earnestly. Toil on for ever ; piece together fragments ; Cook up your broken scraps of sentences, And blow, with puffing... | |
 | 1888 - 884 páginas
...no one, Are tmrefresbing as the wind that whistles In autumn, 'mong the dry and wrinkled leaves. It feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive. If from...the language does not come, By its own impulse to imp*) the hearts Of heaters with communicated pmcer, In vain you strive, in vain vou study earnestly... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 328 páginas
...telescope, How can we learn to sway the minds of men By eloquence ? to rule them, or persuade ? Faust. If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive ; If...you strive — in vain you study earnestly. Toil on for ever ; piece together fragments ; Cook up your broken scraps of sentences, And blow, with puffing... | |
 | John MacLean - 1889 - 360 páginas
...There is manifest in the examples of true Indian oratory extant, what Goethe has well said : " If froi^ the soul the language does not come, By its own impulse...power, In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly. * * Never hope to stir the hearts of men, And mould the souls of many into one, By words which come... | |
 | 1890 - 614 páginas
...if the speaker can remember afterward what it was. Herder had no gesticulation, and Schleiennacher next to none. The elder Edwards had almost none, even...language does not come, By its own impulse, to impel tlie hearts Of hearers, with communicated power, In vain you strive — in vain you study earnestly.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1890 - 362 páginas
...telescope, How can we learn to sway the minds of men By eloquence? to rule them, or persuade ? FAUST. If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive ; If...you strive — in vain you study earnestly. Toil on for ever ; piece together fragments ; Cook up your broken scraps of sentences, And blow, with puffing... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1890 - 378 páginas
...telescope, How can we learn to sway the minds of men By eloquence ? to rule them, or persuade ? FAUST. If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive ; If...you strive — in vain you study earnestly. Toil on for ever ; piece together fragments ; Cook up your broken scraps of sentences. And blow, with puffing... | |
 | John MacLean - 1892 - 366 páginas
...desired. There is manifest in the examples of true Indian oratory extant, what Goethe has well said : " If from the soul the language does not come, By its...power. In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly. * * Never hope to stir the hearts of men, And mould the souls of many into one, By words which come... | |
 | William Boyd Carpenter - 1895 - 272 páginas
...of sincerity. The things of which he speaks must not be ideas merely ; they must be convictions. " If from the soul the language does not come By its...In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly." Unless we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, we shall seek in vain to move the hearts... | |
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Toil on for ever ; piece together fragments ; Cook up your broken scraps of sentences, And blow, with puffing breath, a struggling light, Glimmering confusedly now, now cold in ashes ; Startle the school-boys with your metaphors ; And, if such food may... 
