Urge them while their souls
Are capable of this ambition.
Lest zeal, nor melted by the windy breath
Of soft petitions, pity and remorse,
Cool and congeal again to what it was.
King John, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.
Desultory Stanzas. W. WORDSWORTH.
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.