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. . . as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent, [Isocrates, the celebrated orator of Greece.]
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[Eloquence] the mistress of all the arts. [Lat., Omnium artium domina [eloquentia].
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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And when she spake, Sweete words, like dropping honey, she did shed; And ‘twixt the perles and rubies softly brake A silver sound, that heavenly musicke seem’d to make.
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence
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But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, and leave them honeyless.
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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.
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But while listening Senates hang upon thy tongue, Devolving through the maze of eloquence A roll of periods, sweeter than her song.
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By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. * * * This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.
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Continued eloquence is wearisome.
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Continuous eloquence wearies.
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Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
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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.
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. [Fr., L’eloquence est une peinture de al pensee.]
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the speaker.
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Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.
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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
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Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
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