For that great stage his eloquence became inevitably a kind of brilliant scene-painting,large, fresh, profuse, rapid, showy;masses of light and shade, wonderful effects, but farewell forever to all finer touches and delicate gradations!

Eloquence is the noble, the harmonious, the passionate expression of truths profoundly realized, or of emotions intensely felt.

So far as pulpit eloquence is an art, its greatest master still speaketh.

Eloquence is no objection, but executive ability is the thing most needed.

His eloquence was a succession of drops, not a stream.

The flock knew, or shrewdly suspected, that his eloquence was mere soundnot always even musicaland as a consequence its power was somewhat thrown away.

Municipal eloquence has been time out of mind a storehouse of delight.

Eloquence and thought, character and conversation, were but obstacles to brush aside as we dug blithely after a certain sort of incident, like a pig for truffles.

The current of opinion follows the prestige of speech, and to-day, as ever, eloquence is universal queen.

Long before Christianity declared its inspiring themes and brought peace and hope to oppressed millions, eloquence was a mighty power.

The sporadic eloquence that breaks out over the country on the eve of election, and becomes a chronic disease in the two houses of Congress, has so accustomed us to dissociate words and things, and to look upon strong language as an evidence of weak purpose, that we attach no meaning whatever to declamation.

"Thus'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal,' is like saying, 'Though I have all possible eloquence and yet do not understand mankind, do not take him to my heart, I am as sounding brass; unless my eloquence is music played upon the common chord I am but a tinkling cymbal.' "'

The rich eloquence of her prose, with its pathos and sentiment, its broad perspective and vigorous thought, was to her a continual stimulus and incentive.

Eloquence is a means, not an end.

Municipal eloquence has been time out of mind a storehouse of delight.

"The high eloquence which I have last mentioned, is always the offspring of passion.

Just like their fathers, Mr. Pitt has brilliant language, Mr. Fox solid sense; and such luminous powers of displaying it clearly, that mere eloquence is but a Bristol stone, when set by the diamond Reason.

We thought we would go from the Palace of Electricity to that of Transportation, and I feelin' real tired thought I would take a chair a spell (eloquence is tuckerin' specially when you're walkin' afoot), and I proposed that we should all take chairs for a spell.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Eloquence was his gift.

Sacred eloquence, then, as impersonated in Chrysostom, "the golden-mouthed," will be the subject of this Lecture, for it was by the "foolishness of preaching" that a new spiritual influence went forth to save a dying world.

"Eloquence is no invention of the schools.

I say the wiser choice, because eloquence is not a thing for which one can give a receipt as one might give a receipt for making eau-de-Cologne.

A few noble-minded and able statesmen of the more liberal party, if any political party could be called liberal, lifted up their voices in Parliament for a redress of scandalous evils; but the eloquence which distinguished them was a mere protest.