222 9. ELOQUENCE - ORATOR. As I listen'd to thee, The happy hours pass'd by us unperceiv'd, ROWE. 10. His words of learned length and thundering sound, 11. Here rills of oily eloquence in soft 12. -The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, Cowper. The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit, CowPER. 13. For rhetoric, he could not ope 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. AKENSIDE. 15. Thy words had such a melting flow, And spoke of truth so sweetly well, 16. He scratch'd his ear, the infallible resource To which embarrass'd people have recourse. MOORE. BYRON'S Don Juan. 17. Henry, the forest-born Demosthenes, 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, TRUMBULL'S McFingal. 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 That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him. You could have heard GEORGE CROLY. The beating of your pulses while he spoke. 22. Eloquence, that charms and burns, Startles, soothes, and wins, by turns. J. H. CLINCH. 23. There's a charm in deliv'ry, a magical art, 24. Now with a giant's might He heaves the ponderous thought, MRS. A. B. WELBY. Vicksburg Whig. 224 EMBRACE - KISS. 25. He ceas'd; the solemn silence now was broke, Which reign'd triumphant while the hero spoke; J. T. WATSON. EMBRACE - KISS. 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 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; 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. 8. He scarce afforded one kind parting word, But went away so cold, the kiss he gave me Seem'd the forc'd compliment of sated love. OTWAY. Pouting nest of bland persuasion, Ripely suing love's invasion. MOORE'S Anacreon. 10. I ne'er on that lip for a moment have gaz'd, But a thousand temptations beset me, And I've thought, as the dear little rubies you've rais'd, 11. A long, long kiss-a kiss of youth and love, MOORE. BYRON'S Don Juan. BYRON'S Don Juan. 12. Kiss rhymes to bliss in fact, as well as verse. 13. I love the sex, and sometimes would reverse The tyrant's wish "that mankind only had One neck, which he with one fell stroke might pierce :" To kiss them all at once from North to South. BYRON'S Don Juan. 14. She rose-she sprung-she clung to his embrace BYRON'S Corsair. 226 EMBRACE - KISS. 15. And Paulo by degrees gently embrac'd 16. With one permitted arm, her lovely waist; -The twofold bliss, The promis'd wedding, and the present kiss. LEIGH HUNT. JOEL BARLOW. 17. The roses on your cheeks were never made 18. -And her white arms hung grasp. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. 19. It was enough-each wild and throbbing heart Was closely beating 'gainst its dearer part. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. 20. And with a velvet lip print on his brow 21. Balmy seal of soft affection, Tenderest pledge of future bliss, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss! MRS. SIGOURNEY. 22. As o'er her drooping form he softly bent, While to her cheek the warm blood came and went, |