For the purpose then of being able to practise declamation he has been disciplined; but with respect to praise and blame he has not been disciplined.

It is, first of all, not a procession of shadows repeating the author's declamations, but a real story, the first extended story in our language.

Yes, dear madame, there is the question; and if he cannot answer, is it not most cruel to call me conspirator, and spy, and intrigant, because I talk to my dear madame, who is my only friend in this place?" "Mademoiselle de Barras, I need no declamation from you; and, pardon me, Mrs. Marston, nor from you either," retorted he; "I have my information from one on whom I can rely; let that suffice.

I spoke the declamation (reciting it without missing a word) on October 25th.

At another time he said, "Sheridan cannot bear me; I bring his declamation to a point."

Such of his fellow-students as envied him the success of this discourse, and the admiration it procured him, employed their industry to trace him as a plagiary; for they could not be persuaded that a youth seemingly so much removed from the appearance of genius, could compose a declamation, in which learning, genius, and judgment had a very great share.

Boccaccio insinuates more than he asserts, and he concludes a vague declamation about the miseries of married life with the words, "Truly I do not affirm that these things happened to Dante, for I do not know."

It is true, his writings contain no declamations against tyrants, and no tirades in favor of liberty.

But Anstey, who was the senior Bachelor of the year, and to whose lot it therefore fell first to deliver this obnoxious declamation, contrived to frame it in such a manner, as to cast a ridicule on the whole proceeding.

At last, finding his voice, and rapping the ferrule of his ivory-headed cane upon the floor to emphasize his declamation, he cried out: "What!

Here ended the "public declamation.

If any one of those philosophic critics will take the trouble to listen to a few courses of sermons at the present day, and the remark applies not less to protestant than to catholic churches, he will find that instead of that 'parole morale et consolante' which is so soothing to think of, the pulpit is now the home of fervid controversy and often exacerbated declamation in favour of ancient dogma against modern science.

Now, that the effect which he aimed to produce excluded all declamation, all attempt at eloquence, anything like flights of oratory or striking figures of rhetoric, nobody understood better than Lord Palmerston.

Mr. Krause had not yet finished the declamation of the poem which his inspiration had produced in honor of Gotzkowsky, when a loud noise was heard at the door of the hall, and Gotzkowsky's body-servant rushed in.

What could be more difficult than the duty of presiding at the dinner of the New England Society and rehearsing the threadbare story of the landing of the Pilgrims and dilating upon it in such a way as to entertain New Englanders, who ever since their childhood have heard the declamations of Webster, Everett, Winthrop, and the rest, about that heroic band?

He was the first who deviated from the strict narratives of events, and also introduced much rhetorical declamation, which he puts into the mouths of his heroes.

but he deserved to die much sooner for making such a declamation.

Here is a man apparently in the last madness of intense passion, in fierce altercation with another, who tries his utmost to outbluster his furious declamation.

and I pass over an impassioned declamation about bedspreads (I think) which has failed to fire my blood.

LUXURY, dread of it visionary, ii. 169-170; money better spent on it than in almsgiving, iii. 56, 291; no nation ever hurt by it, ii. 217-9; produces much good, iii. 55; querulous declamations against it, iii. 226; every society as luxurious as it can be, iii. 282; man not diminished in size by it, v. 358; reaches very few, ii. 218; Wesley attacks its apologists, iii. 56, n. 2. Lyce, To, i. 178.

But when my turn came to read my declamation, I found that my feelings had nearly betrayed me.

Seneca the father records the brilliant declamations of Ovid as a schoolboy, quoting at some length his plea for a wife who threw herself over a cliff on hearing of the death of her husband, and calling attention to several passages in Ovid's poems where the poet has borrowed the clever sayings of his professors in the school of rhetoric.

Of course I recollect the stir made by the production of Costa's "Eli" in 1855, and especially do I seem to remember Mr. Sims Beevesthen in his primest primeand his thrilling declamation of the "War Song."

But he now renews his declamation against tea, notwithstanding the greatness or power of those that have interest or inclination to support it.

Our scientific teachers would replace eloquent declamation concerning vices, such as drunkenness and debauchery, by illustrated lectures upon the physiological effects of violations of nature's laws.