F. J. DICKMAN-Review of Lecture by Rufus Choate. There is no true orator who is not a hero. EMERSON-Letters and Social Aims. Eloquence. C. You'd scarce expect one of my age And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, DAVID EVERETT-Lines Written for a The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. e. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-Maxims. No. 9. The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. f. MACAULAY-Essay on Athenian Orators. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. g. MILTON-Paradise Regained. Bk. IV. L. 267. The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. h. EDW. G. PARKER-The Golden Age of American Oratory. Ch. I. When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, Action," and which was the second, he replied, "Action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action." i. PLUTARCH-Morals. Lives of the Ten Orators. Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. j. Comedy of Errors. Act III. Sc. 2. I only speak right on. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 220. List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music. n. Henry V. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 43. What means this passionate discourse, This peroration with such circumstance? Henry VI. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 104. ORDER. 0. r. BEN JONSON-The Silent Woman. Act I. Sc. 1. Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. III. 8. L. 710. Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. t. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 189. Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, tho' all things differ, all agree. POPE-Windsor Forest. L. 13. Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are and must be greater than the rest. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 49. Not a mouse u. บ. Shall disturb this hallow'd house: I am sent with broom before, centre Pain is no longer pain when it is past. g. MARGARET J. PRESTON-Old Songs and New. Nature's Lesson. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. h. Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 72. The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,-that monster called Paine. i. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY-Sidera. Nothing begins, and nothing ends, Paine. FRANCIS THOMPSON-Daisy. St. 15. A man of pleasure is a man of pains. k. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 793. PAINTING (See OCCUPATIONS). PARADISE. But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning-gate, And walked in Paradise. 1. In this fool's paradise, he drank delight. CRABBE-The Borough Players. n. Letter XII. The meanest floweret of the vale, 0. GRAY-Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitudes. L. 53. Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil. p. EARNEST L'EPINE-Croquemitaine. JAMES ALDRICH-A Death Bed. |