...Hamlet, act iii, scene 2. SHAKESPEARE. Lack-lustre eye. As You Like It, act ii, scene 7. SHAKESPEARE. 1 But when he speaks, what elocution flows Soft as the...easy art, Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! Iliad, hook iii. POPE'S translation. Last, not least.1 King Lear, act i, scene 1. SHAKESPEARE. Lay...

...stand, Nor raised his head nor stretched his sceptred hand; But when he speaks, what elocution flows I Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...easy art ; Melting they fall and sink into the heart 1 " His voice is described as rich and melodious. His personal appearance is thus given by Wm. Sullivan...

...ground As one unskilled, or dumb, he seemed to stand. Nor raised his head, nor stretched his sceptered hand. But when he speaks, what elocution flows, Soft...descending snows, The copious accents fall with easy ait. Melting, they fall, and sink into the heait. Wondering, we hear, and fixed in deep surprise, j...

...ground ; As one unskill'd or dumb, he seemed to stand, Nor rais'd his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand ; But, when he speaks, what elocution flows ;...art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart. greater sweetness can certainly be imagined ; but desiring to give a notion of the highest power of...

...was it to listen to a voice of such surpassing melody! The utterance of Mr. Clay was most charming: " But when he speaks, what elocution flows. Soft as...easy art, Melting they fall and sink into the heart." What astonishing effects have been produced by such a voice! Much" of the force, splendor, and fascination...

...spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." Homer, speaking of the eloquence of Ulysses : — " Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart !" Pope's translation. Milton, describing the standard of the reprobate angels, says that it — "...

...when he speaks, what elocution flows ! Soft as the flceces of descending snows, The copious aecents nd Routledge ! Wondering we hear, and fix'd in dcep surprise, Oar ears refute the censure of our eyes." The king...

..." He came like night.'1'' The eloquence of Ulysses is described by the help of a similitude : — " Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...easy art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart ! " The Figures of Similarity are these : — 1. Simile, or Comparison. 2. Metaphor. 3. Personification....

...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' ' Soft as the fleeces of descending snows, The copious...art ; Melting they fall, and sink into the heart.' Pope's translation. Milton, describing the standard of the reprobate angels, says that it — ' Shone...

...eloquence, though ordinarily Homer's description of the oratory of Ulysses might be partially applied: "But when he speaks what elocution flows, Soft as the fleeces of descending snows." It may be said of him what was once remarked of a distinguished French orator, that he said just what...