The tragic stage shall give you tear for tear,
And wash out all afflictions but its own.—Cumberland.
From the same. (Book vi. § 3, p. 355.)
Bid me say anything rather than this;
But on this theme Demosthenes himself
Shall sooner check the torrent of his speech
Than I—Demosthenes! that angry orator,
That bold Briareus, whose tremendous throat,
Charged to the teeth with battering-rams and spears,