ORATORY.
But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel—must feel themselves.
The Rosciad. C. CHURCHILL.
Words that weep and tears that speak.
The Prophet. A. COWLEY.
Thence to the famous orators repair,
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,
To Macedon. and Artaxerxes' throne.
Paradise Regained, Bk, IV. MILTON.
Where nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.
Love of Fame, Satire II. DR. E. YOUNG.
What means this passionate discourse,
This peroration with such circumstance?
Henry VI., Pt. II. Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Frank, haughty, rash,—the Rupert of debate.
The New Timon, Pt. I. E. BULWER-LYTTON.
For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
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For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Hudibras, Pt. 1. Canto 1. S. BUTLER.
"I wonder if Brougham thinks as much as he talks,"
Said a punster, perusing a trial;
"I vow, since his lordship was made Baron Vaux,
He's been Vaux et proeterea nihil!"
A Voice and Nothing More. ANONYMOUS.