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10. Self is the medium least refin'd of all,

Through which opinion's searching beams can fall:
And, passing there, the clearest, steadiest ray,
Will tinge its light, and turn its line astray.

11. For, as his own bright image he survey'd,
He fell in love with the fantastic shade;
And o'er the fair resemblance hung unmov'd,
Nor knew, fond youth, it was himself he lov'd.

12. How often, in this cold and bitter world,
Is the warm heart thrown back upon itself!
Cold, careless are we of another's grief;
We wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

MOORE.

From OVID.

MISS L. E. LANDON.

ELEGANCE.

1. The feeling heart, simplicity of life,

And elegance, and taste.

THOMSON.

2. Trifles themselves are elegant in him.

POPE.

3. To these resistless grace impart,

That look of sweetness, form'd to please,

That elegance, devoid of art,

That dignity that's lost in ease.

4. With all the wonders of external grace,
A person finely turn'd, a mould, a face,
Where (union rare,) expression's lively force,
With beauty's softest magic, holds discourse.

CARTWRIGHT.

CHURCHILL.

1.

2.

ELOQUENCE - ORATOR.

And when she spake.

Sweet words, like dropping honey, she did shed;
And 'twixt the pearls and rubies softly break

A silver sound, that heavenly music seem'd to make.
SPENSER'S Fairy Queen.

When he speaks,

The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences.

3. And aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

4. Power above powers! O heavenly eloquence!
That, with the strong rein of commanding words,
Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence
Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

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Dropp'd manna, and could make the worst appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash

Maturest counsels.

DANIEL.

MILTON'S Paradise Lost.

6. Men are more eloquent than women made, But women are more powerful to persuade.

RANDOLPH.

7.

Oh! speak that again!

Sweet as the syren's tongue those accents fall,

And charm me to my ruin.

SOUTHERN.

8. Your words are like the notes of dying swans,

Too sweet to last.

DRYDEN.

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9.

ELOQUENCE-ORATOR.

As I listen'd to thee,
The happy hours pass'd by us unperceiv'd,
So was my soul fix'd to the soft enchantment.

ROWE.

10. His words of learned length and thundering sound,
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around;
And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew.
GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village.

11. Here rills of oily eloquence in soft
Meanders lubricate the course they take.

12.

-The grand debate,

The popular harangue, the tart reply,

The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit,
And the loud laugh-I long to know them all.

13. For rhetoric, he could not ope

COWPER.

Cowper.

His mouth, but out there flew a trope.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

14.

My listening powers

Were aw'd, and every thought in silence hung,

And wondering expectation.

15. Thy words had such a melting flow,

And spoke of truth so sweetly well,
They dropp'd like heaven's serenest snow,
And all was brightness where they fell!

16. He scratch'd his ear, the infallible resource To which embarrass'd people have recourse.

AKENSIDE.

MOORE.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

17. Henry, the forest-born Demosthenes,
Whose thunder shook the Philip of the seas.

BYRON'S Age of Bronze..

18. His talk is the sweet extract of all speech,

And holds mine ear in blissful slavery.

BAILEY'S Festus.

19. Thus stor'd with intellectual riches,
Skill'd was our squire in making speeches,
Where strength of brains united centres
With strength of lungs surpassing Stentor's.

TRUMBULL'S Mc Fingal.

20. Oh! as the bee upon the flower, I hang Upon the honey of thy eloquent tongue.

21.

BULWER'S Lady of Lyons.

His words seem'd oracles

That pierc'd their bosoms; and each man would turn
And gaze in wonder on his neighbour's face,

That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him.
You could have heard

The beating of your pulses while he spoke.

22. Eloquence, that charms and burns,

Startles, soothes, and wins, by turns.

GEORGE CROLY.

J. H. CLINCH.

23. There's a charm in deliv'ry, a magical art,
That thrills, like a kiss, from the lip to the heart;
'Tis the glance-the expression-the well-chosen word-
By whose magic the depths of the spirit are stirr'd—
The smile the mute gesture-the soul-stirring pause—
The eye's sweet expression, that melts while it awes—
The lip's soft persuasion-its musical tone:
Oh! such were the charms of that eloquent one!

24. Now with a giant's might

He heaves the ponderous thought,
Now pours the storm of eloquence
With scathing lightning fraught.

MRS. A. B. WELBY.

Vicksburg Whig.

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EMBRACE - KISS.

25. He ceas'd; the solemn silence now was broke,

Which reign'd triumphant while the hero spoke;
And then was heard, amidst the general pause,
One simultaneous burst of loud applause.

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1. Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

2. Kiss the tear from her lip, you'll find the rose The sweeter for the dew.

3. These poor, half kisses kill me quite; Was ever man so serv'd?

SHAKSPEARE.

WEBSTER.

Amidst an ocean of delight,

For pleasure to be starv'd!

4. Sweet were his kisses on my balmy lips
As are the breezes breath'd amidst the groves
Of rip'ning spices on the height of day.

5. The fragrant infancy of op'ning flowers Flow'd to my senses in that melting kiss!

6. I felt, the while, a pleasing kind of smart;
The kiss went tingling to my very heart.
When it was gone, the sense of it did stay,
The sweetness cling'd upon my lips all day,
Like drops of honey loth to fall away.

7. The kiss you take is paid by that you give; The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.

DRAYTON.

BEHN.

SOUTHERN.

DRYDEN.

LORD LANSDOWN.

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