Slaves that with serious impudence beguile, And lie without a blush, without a smile; Exalt each trifle, ev'ry vice adore, Your taste in snuff, your judgment in a whore: Can Balbo's eloquence applaud, and swear, He gropes his breeches with a monarch's air.

As some new burst of eloquence breaks from the speaker's lips, my worthy friend exclaims, "How magnificently he talks!

(The work was a humorous romance, unique in its kind, and I am told is much tasted in a Cherokee translation, where the jokes are rendered with all the serious eloquence characteristic of the Red races.)

Let Florence fair her Dantes justly boast, And royal Rome, her Petrarchs numbered feet, In English Wyat both of them doth coast: In whom all graceful eloquence doth meet.

For, notwithstanding our utter incapacity to preduce anything like HAMLET or OTHELLO, we see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all."

But all that admirable embellishment of his will be of a twofold character; on account of which it is that eloquence gains such great honour.

All these things and others Mr. Gladstone exposed with an eloquence glowing and burning with righteous and fearless indignation.

Tell me whose eloquence hathe doone the deede

MEPHISTOPHELES Wherefore thy passion so excite, And thus thine eloquence inflame?

Unto the hymis of my maisteris dere, Gowere and Chaucere, that on steppis satt Of rhetorick, quhill thai war lyvand here, Superlative as poets laureate, In moralitee and eloquence ornate, I recommend my buik in lynis seven, And eke their saulis unto the blisse of hevin.

When the judgement of the chief masters of eloquence passes for reason, even error seems right to those who follow great leaders.

His old eloquence rings unimpaired in the farewell.

For three hours my eloquence storms.

It was in Athens, where there existed the purest form of democratic institutions, that eloquence rose to the loftiest heights in the ancient world, so far as eloquence appeals to popular passions.

Only through the publication of every one of their proceedings are the chambers related to the larger public opinion; and it is shown that what one imagines at home with his wife and friends is one thing, and what happens in a great assembly, where one feat of eloquence wrecks another, is quite a different thing.