 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...  Essay on Warren Hastings - Page 176by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911Full view - About this book
 | 1877 - 588 pages
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There were Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and...richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern." Edmund Burke honoured Beaconsfield with his residence for more than a quarter of... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the...richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...such as, perhaps, had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...to the capacity and taste of his hearers ; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...and, more than all, the delineation of the remarkable train by which he is surrounded. " There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the...richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | 1853 - 846 pages
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 | 1866 - 956 pages
...tenderest and most considerate friend. As yet, the star of Burke, who was to rise, according to Macaulay, "in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator ancient or modern," was below the horizon. He was then twenty-three years old, reading for the bar,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes, and the...style to the capacity and taste of his hearers; but in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...to be one of the conductors of the impeachment. But there stood Fox and Sheridan. There was Burke, in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination, superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There appeared the finest gentleman of the age — his face beaming with intelligence... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...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,... | |
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