 | Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1845 - 608 pages
...motions, and almost without gestures, but animating the whole with a voice of sensibility, he diffused over his audience the religious emotion which his own exterior proclaimed, and caused himself to be listened to with that profound silence by which eloquence is better praised than... | |
 | 1887 - 568 pages
...motions, and almost without gestures, but animating the whole with a voice of sensibility, he diffused over his audience the religious emotion which his own exterior proclaimed, and caused himself to be listened to with that profound silence by which eloqu«nce is better praised than... | |
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... species of eloquence. On entering the pulpit, he appeared thoroughly penetrated with the great truths he was about to utter ; with eyes declined, a modest and collected air, without violent motions, and almost without gestures, but animating the whole... 