His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were t...errible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant which his genius gained over theirs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His breast was the seat of all those passions which degrade our nature, and disturb our reason. There they raged in a perpetual co...nflict; but avarice, the meanest of them all, generally triumphed, ruled absolutely, and in many instances, which I forbear to mention, most scandalously.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His mind was strong and clear, his will was unwavering, his convictions were uncompromising, his imagination was powerful enough t...o invest all plans of national policy with a poetic charm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I thought of her grave below the hill, Which the sentinel cypress tree stands over,... And I thought, "Were she only living still, How I could forgive her, and love her!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the one bird singing alone to his nest, And the one star over the tower.... I thought of our little quarrels and strife, And the letter that brought me back my ring; And it all seem'd then, in the waste of life,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling where it can, I say:... For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, if thy pride did not our joys control, What world of loving wonders shouldst thou see!... For if I saw thee once transformed in me, Then in thy bosom I would pour my soul;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »