highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. EDW. G. PARKER-The Golden Age of American Oratory. Ch. I. 12 Præterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quæ legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quæ pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit. Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. PLINY the Younger-Epistles. II. 3. Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator As if the golden fee for which I plead Were for myself. Richard III. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 95. 22 Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green. Venus and Adonis. L. 145. 23 Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat. TENNYSON-Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. L. 112. In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him- But at night, when the woods grow still and dim, O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl, 1 Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. RUSKIN-True and Beautiful. Painting. Introduction. 2 If it is the love of that which your work represents-if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you-if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you-if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof. RUSKIN-The Two Paths. Lect. I. Of threads of palm was the carpet spun |