Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. The Literary panorama - Page 8091818Full view - About this book
| 1858 - 784 pages
...furgetting Swift's aphorism — "Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit." But there was nothing trite or commonplace in his discourses. The artist's finish was visible in each... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...cannot bt- hidden in adversity. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the jirofit. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, Than that Caesar were dead, to live... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 pages
...data. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in com, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, Than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?... | |
| Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 pages
...be hidden' in adversity*. 2. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing' to those* who come...but prejudicial to him' who would reap the profit*. * When two words are opposed to each other, and contrasted with two other words, the emphasis on these... | |
| Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, plca~ ring' to those" who come only for amusement', but prejudicial* to him' who would reap the profit". * When two words are opposed to each otber, and contrasted with two other words, the emphasis on these... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pages
...rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pages
...rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 480 pages
...rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1888 - 420 pages
...pleased; and to keep a fool constantly in good humour with himself, and with others, is no very easy task. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary...company and good company, is only hearing the same things said in a little room or in a large saloon, at small tables or at great tables, before two candies... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...well dressed and argument put in order.— Jeremy Collier. Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn ; pleasing to those who come only...for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. — Swift. There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric ; but it oftener serves ill turns... | |
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