 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pàgines
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " Of piercing wit and pregnant thought. Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies/' His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 452 pàgines
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 554 pàgines
...the subject of a few laudatory lines: — •** Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endowed by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too: So much the weight... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 pàgines
...is the subject of a few laudatory lines: — " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endowed by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too : So much the weight... | |
 | Poets - 1877 - 300 pàgines
...and alone, He's greater than a monarch on his throne. Conquest of Granada. Dante Alighieri, 1265. 20. Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies. Absalom and Achitophel. William Pitt, 1759. 29. How shall I speak of that triumphant day, When you... | |
 | 1877 - 520 pàgines
...under the name of Jotham, is well known : — " Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Indued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies ; who but only try'd The worse a while then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance too, So... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pàgines
...slave of state; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 pàgines
...circles, and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost; but we nowhere read... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pàgines
...voice, sebm to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is descrilied as " not 1>e in any His oratory is utterly and irretiievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 pàgines
...voice seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
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Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought,* Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too— So much the weight of one brave... 
