 | Maurice Thompson - Art and morals - 1893 - 108 pages
...them." Again he sounds it when he remarks, " Language most shows a man : speak, that I may see thee. . . No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech." He says that speech is "likened to a man," and that a "good man always profits by his endeavor. . .... | |
 | G. Steel - English language - 1894 - 320 pages
...(Cervantes), (3) Solitude is sometimes best society (Milton). (4) fit audience find, though few (Milton). (5) No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech (lien Jonion). HCtottional JEjevcfses FOB anfc Parse the words in italics. B. 1. (1) He shone with... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...most shewes a man : speake, that I may see Oratio thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts " of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme or likenesse so true as his 10 speech. Nay, it is likened to a man ; and... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...Language. a man : speake, That T may see Oratio thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts '£ of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme or likenesse so true as his 10 speech. Nay, it is likened to a man; and... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...speake, that I may see Oratio thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts tma.g°. 8MIWI, of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans itfrme or likenesse so true as his 10 speech. Nay, it is likened to a man; and... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 388 pages
...man : speake, that I may see Oratio thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts ima s° of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme or likenesse so true as his ~ f £i ' animi. 10 speech. Nay, it is likened... | |
 | Nehemiah Hawkins - Guardian and ward - 1916 - 806 pages
...the mirror of the soul. Speak that I may see thee! For it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it — the mind. Nothing renders a man's form and likeness so truly as his speech." Gertrude was in reality trying by... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin - English language - 1917 - 300 pages
...man," says Ben Jonson. " Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it,...the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness as true as his speech. Nay, it is likened to a man ; and as we consider feature and composition in... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Commonplace-books - 1917 - 250 pages
...p. 100, No. cxxi), and a note refers the reader to Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, ii. 10. 12. ' No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech,' says ' rare Ben '. ' Nay, it is likened to a man ; and as we consider feature and composition in a... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1923 - 150 pages
...of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech. Nay, it is likened to a man;...composition in a man; so words in Language: in the greatnesse, aptnesse, sound, structure, and harmony of it. Some men are tall, and bigge, so some Language... | |
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Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech. 
