Go on, spare no invectives, but open the spout of your eloquence, and see with what a calm, connubial resignation, I will both hear and bow to the chastisement.

Colley Cibber.—The Lady’s Last Stake, Act II. Scene 1.

ELOQUENT.—That old man eloquent.

Milton.—Sonnet X. To Lady M. Ley.

Was the slave so eloquent
In his malice?

Thos. Killegrew.—The Parson’s Wedding, Act I. Scene 1.

Nor speaks loud, to boast her wit;
In her silence eloquent.

Habington.—A Description of Castara, Verse 3.

Eloquent Want, whose reasons sway,
And make ten thousand truths give way.

Green.—On Barclay’s Apology for the Quakers, Line 89.

EMBERS.—Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

Milton.—II Penseroso, Line 79.


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