 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1898 - 684 pages
...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... | |
 | Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Marquis of Halifax - Great Britain - 1898 - 578 pages
...Coventry to Thomas Thynne, November 21, Longteat ^fSS.). Halifax appears (line 882) as — ' Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried Tlie worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
 | Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Marquis of Halifax - Great Britain - 1898 - 582 pages
...Coventry to Thomas Thynne, November 21, Longleat MSS.). Halifax appears (line 882) as — ' Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1901 - 812 pages
...Countess ("Sacharissa")- — CRAIK, HENRJ, 1894, ed., English Prose, vol. Ill, p. 207. PERSONAL Jothamof piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1901 - 806 pages
...("Sacharissa"). — CRAIK, HENRY, 1894, ed., English Prose, vol. ill, p. 207. PERSONAL Jothamof pierciiig wit and pregnant thought, Endued 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 166 pages
...voice, seem to have made the strongeot 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." 30 His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | William Willis - Nobility - 1909 - 84 pages
...unjust taxation. In reading "Absalom and Achitophel "I was struck with the character of Jotham: — Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, but who only tried the worse, Then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance... | |
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Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies... 
