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Here rills of oily eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take. - William Cowper 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. - William Cowper, Conversation (l. 101) His words seem'd oracles That pierc'd their bosoms; and each man would turn And gaze in wonder on his neighbour's face, That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him. You could have heard The beating of your pulses while he spoke. - George Croly Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords! - Samuel Daniel Power above powers! O heavenly eloquence! that, with the strong reign of commanding words, dost manage, guide and master the high eminence of men's affections! - Samuel Daniel Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence. - Francois Delsarte Such was the force of his eloquence, to make the hearers more concerned than h he that spake. - Sir John Denham Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield The art of clothing the thought in apt, significant and sounding words. - John Dryden When he spoke, what tender words he us'd! So softly, that like flakes of feather'd snow, They melted as they fell. - John Dryden Your Words are like the notes of dying swans, Too sweet to last. - John Dryden The charm of eloquence--the skill To wake each secret string, And from the bosom's chords at will Life's mournful music bring; The o'ermast'ring strength of mind, which sways The haughty and the free, Whose might earth's mightiest ones obey This charm was given to thee. - Emma Catherine Embury Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it--to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all. - Ralph Waldo Emerson His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus He adorned whatever he touched. [Fr., Il embellit tout qu'il touche.] - Francois de Salignac Fenelon, Lettre sur les Occupations de l'Academie Francaise (sec. IV) No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. - James Abram Garfield Whene'er he speaks, Heaven, how the list'ning throng Dwell on the melting music of his tongue! His arguments are emblems of his mien, Mild but not faint, and forcing, though serene: And when the power of eloquence he'd try, Here lightning strikes you, there soft breezes sigh. - Sir Samuel Garth Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view. - Oliver Goldsmith This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe--that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity. - Oliver Goldsmith His eloquence is classic in its style, Not brilliant with explosive coruscations Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught, And scatter'd like a shower of shooting stars, That end in darkness: no;--his noble mind Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene. His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps Fix'd on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words As easily as eagles cleave the air; And never pauses till the height is won; And all who listen follow where he leads. - Mrs. Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale Displaying page 2 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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