How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. ❋ Various (N/A)
He is described by Clarendon as "a man of grave aspect, of a presence that drew respect, and of great parts and ability, but passionate and supercilious and too voluminous a discourser in council." ❋ Various (N/A)
The men nearest Steve were all turned toward the discourser to Chloe, who sat on ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
But truth to tell, Dominic Iglesias had not only grown very weary of discourse and discourser, but somewhat impatient also. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)
I suppose Miss Veronica is grown a reader and discourser. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
He was already dreaded for his prowess in argument, his dictatorial manners and vivid flashes of wit and humour, the more effective from the habitual gloom and apparent heaviness of the discourser. ❋ Leslie, Stephen (1878)
The _Table Talk_, edited by Mr. Nelson Coleridge, shows how pregnant, how pithy, how full of subtle observation, and often also of playful humour, could be the talk of the great discourser in its lighter and more colloquial forms. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Seeing would have been enough, but for a certain number there was hearing too, with the report of it for all; and it is not surprising that fame of the marvellous discourser should, in mere virtue of his extraordinary power of improvised speech, his limitless and untiring mastery of articulate words, have risen to a height to which writers whose only voice is in their pens can never hope to attain. ❋ Unknown (1871)
According to him the great discourser only "seemed to wander," and he seemed to wander the most ❋ Unknown (1871)
“What do you think of Dr. Channing, Mr. Coleridge?” said a brisk young gentleman to the mighty discourser, as he sat next him at a small tea-party. ❋ John Brown (1846)
Mrs. Procter, and pointing to the brilliant discourser with his poor old finger, said (indignantly), "Who is _she_?" ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
He was a very pleasant discourser, in earnest and in jest, and, therefore, very grateful to all kind of company, where he was not the less esteemed for being very rich. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)
He was a very pleasant discourser in earnest and in jest, and therefore very grateful to all kind of company, where he was not the less esteemed for being very rich. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)
Adam Says: You are an amazing observer, and yet an awful discourser ❋ Unknown (2008)
I (said this most pleasing discourser to me) did commodiously behold this verity of the Transmutation of Metals, but was so astonished with fear and admiration, that I was Scarcely able to speak one word; But my Master heartning me, said; Cheer, up and be contented: take for your self a sixteenth part of this Mass, which keep For a Memorandum; but the other fifteen parts distribute to the poor: and I did as he said. ❋ John Frederick Helvetius (N/A)
The best managers are those who can worst give account how they are so; while the greatest talkers, for the most part, do nothing to purpose; I know one of this sort of men, and a most excellent discourser upon all sorts of good husbandry, who has miserably let a hundred thousand livres yearly revenue slip through his hands; I know another who talks, who better advises than any man of his counsel, and there is not in the world a fairer show of soul and understanding than he has; nevertheless, when he comes to the test, his servants find him quite another thing; not to make any mention of his misfortunes. ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)
a case in point -- it is not possible to imitate truly a dull and garrulous discourser, without repeating the effects of dullness and garrulity. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
In these discourses he says: "The carpenter is the actual model; for like him the discourser cuts and fits his timber according to rules the grounds of which it concerns not him to understand, with little labor beyond that of hacking and hewing -- materials being ever ready at his hand: for the world is full of books as the forest is of trees and the market of lumber. ❋ Various (N/A)
