 | 1826 - 438 pages
...Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
...Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it It must exist...declamation, all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...all may aspire after it, they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...Labor and learning may toil for it ; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...Labour and learning may toil for it ; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain Words and phrases may 10 be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of 15 a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Labour and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and 10 be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist...expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it—they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of 15 a fountain from... | |
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Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it. 
