 | William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1877 - 568 sayfa
...concisely — thus inculcating similar instruction to that of Dr. Southey, who recommended " Be brief : for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed the deeper they burn." Mr. Bright, in delivering his speeches, has none of the drawling mannerism of many of the speakers... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 464 sayfa
...will not dam it up in pools by too frequent periods. Nevertheless, it is a rule, as Southey says, that it is with words as with sunbeams; the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Sir Joshua Reynolds says that Titian knew how to place upon the canvas the image and character of any... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 sayfa
...stand." And this, too, without diffuse transitional matter, if any. Robert Southey testifies that " it is with words as with sunbeams : the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." And George Herbert, — A verse may find him who a sermon flies. * For such store of pertinent aphorisms,... | |
 | Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - 1883 - 324 sayfa
...him. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small." — Lavater. " It is with words as with sunbeams, — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." — Southey. " The fool hath planted his memory with an army of words." — Shakespeare. " The world... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 sayfa
...brake out into a lamentable cry, saying What shall I do?— Bunyan. 'It is with words,' says Southey, 'as with sunbeams,— the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.' Our literature abounds in passages of this Saxon brevity. 'I observe,' says Emerson, 'that all distinguished... | |
 | 1906 - 192 sayfa
...dare not think is a slave. — An inscription on the wall of Andrew Carnegie's library. Be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. — Southey. So long as we love we serve. So long as we are loved by others I would almost say we are... | |
 | 1888 - 252 sayfa
...much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. John Neal. If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Southey. Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. Shakespeare.... | |
 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood - 1888 - 446 sayfa
...The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus, up to the chin in water and yet thirsty. Adams. 6. It is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Southey. 1. Her hair drooped round her pallid cheek Like sea-weed on a clam. Holmes. 8. To be mixed... | |
 | Judson Perry Welsh - 1889 - 292 sayfa
...11. God doth not need either man's works or his own gifts. 12. If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams, — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Errors in the Use of Conjunctions. 1. In correlative connectives the right words should stand in correlation.... | |
 | 1890 - 830 sayfa
...words is apt to be a niggard in deed.— Sir Walter jRalciffh. IF you would be pungent be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. — Sout/iey. CHEERFULNESS is the daughter of employment, and I have known a man to come home in high... | |
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If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. 
