 ... as a certain insensibility in the countenance recommends a sentence of humour and jest, so it must be a very lively consciousness that gives grace to great sentiments. The jest is to be a thing unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty...  The British Essayists;: Tatler - Page 200by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 pages
...unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself,...is," said he, "a remarkable example of that kind. ^Eschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 pages
...unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself,...is," said he, " a remarkable example of that kind. .^Eschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - English essays - 1898 - 446 pages
...unexpected; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself, the more you will move others. " There 1 Probably Heidegger. See No. I. 2 This article is printed in Scott's edition of Swift's Works. But... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - English essays - 1898 - 439 pages
...unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself, the more you will move others. " There 1 Probably Heidegger. See No. I. 2 This article is printed in Scott's edition of Swift's Works. But... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1902 - 398 pages
...unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself,..."There is," said he, "a remarkable example of that kind : ^Eschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1915 - 518 pages
...your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth ; but Pulpit Eloquence 49 when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself,...is," said he, "a remarkable example of that kind. ^Eschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1918 - 678 pages
...Satire of the First Book, and especially in the Fifth Epode. (2. 118) No. 66. — But when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself, the more you will move others. Cf. AP 102-103. (2.129) No. 67. [Steele (or Swift?) has devised three tables of fame, of which he says:]... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Comparative literature - 1918 - 662 pages
...Satire of the First Book, and especially in the Fifth Epode. (2. 118) No. 66. —But when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself, the more you will move others. Cf. AP 102-103. (2. 129) No. 67. [Steele (or Swift?) has devised three tables of fame, of which he... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 368 pages
...unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved yourself,...is," said he, " a remarkable example of that kind : ^Eschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
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