SPEECH.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Iliad, Bk. XIV. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
Discourse may want an animated "No"
To brush the surface, and to make it flow;
But still remember, if you mean to please,
To press your point with modesty and ease.
Conversation. W. COWPER.
One whom the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
Love's Labor's Lost, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
King Henry V., Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.
Parody on Pope. C. CIBBER.
Yet Hold it more humane, more heavenly, first,
By winning words to conquer willing hearts,
And make persuasion do the work of fear.
Paradise Regained, Bk. I. MILTON.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
"Careful with fire," is good advice, we know,
"Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.
Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead:
But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
First Settler's Story. W. CARLETON.