Shows Quotes - Page 28
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason (1851). “The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.353
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.80
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.271