Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-06-14

guage Of monarch: every where else, that
of courier.
do not demand the Roman orator, such
as he VINO best realized me picture de.
scrlbes MIN, combining ainost every quail.
W thar ca serve TO exair the digalty Of
tbs human understanding (: the subtlety
OF the dialectlcian, the eradition of the phi.
losophsr, the memory of the jurisl, the
fancy aud language Of the poet, the voice
and gesture OF the nagedian. In orator.,
acumen dialecffcarnn, Sententie ptiloSoblso.
rum, Uerbs Prope poetarum, memorial iuris-
copsuItofum, O0a' iraged0rum, Sestus paene
sunmerAm Gctorunl. he sunk into the
same comb with Cicero, as, in the depart.
ments of the palu1er, the statuary, and
perhaps of the musician, we have seen ma.
ny noDle limitations, bat nothing that has,
as yer, Eivaled the perfection OF the origin.
al. WITH our present feelings and habts.
it would be- folly 20 recommend, aud ere.
dulity TO expect, the unqualified adoption
Ut those arts, BY which the prodigies of
ancient eloquence were efectuated. That
Olympian tlunder," which threw all
Greece inso torment, which dislocated
the frame OF empires, which shook the
solid structure OF the Macedonian power
to rs deepest foundations, which m ,de
Philip tremDle in the midst of his redoubt.
able phalaax, is to be forged 10 a higher
and brighter region than the dun a,mos.
phere OF lawyers Office. The children
Of hcroes, as the orators of Athens were
empnaucally denominatrd, muss be formed
in some other school. But, although the
age OF hefossn be past, we may still aim
asthe explo,ss of men. Ii we cannot en-.
Joy the majesty and romp of the Dorian
harmony, we still retain the piercing and
pathetic ones OF The Lydian. The violent
commissions and the excrnciating asonies,
exhibited 10 the group of LAGOON, infuse
terror, and kiudle all the enthusiast of ad.
miration the mild languor Expressed 10 the
attitude, and diffused over the counte nance,
of the Dying Gladiator, awakens feelings
less sublime, but scarcely less powertul-,he
IhroDs OF sender distress IL the swellings of
the softened heart" Neither the vices.
nor the crimes, nor the passions, nor The
miseries, nor the senslbiities of mankind
are yet extinguished. They lay open an
ample field to one who would have the di.
ligence to watch, the courage to seize, and
the skill to improve, the concurrence of
opportunity. Inc speaker may still in.
dulge, without restraint, the most lively
feellogs OF q compassionate nature, the
warmest language of passion, the mostez-
quisite paihos OF a high wrought :perora.
tlon:; but'not until, bya species of enchan,.
:ment, like that OF the magic wand of Har.
lequin, he has chained down the minds OF
his auditory to one pos,ure;; while he has i
them IL the same state of tension, and az
tuned them 10 unison with his own; ua,il |
the electric shock is felt, and commuaicas
ed; until they have caught his Infectious
ardor. and glow with all the fervor of the |
subject. When the eye Of benevolence |
oegtns TO sparkle, the tear of compassion
to roll, or the marmur OF indignation 10 be
heard, heis released from his shackies, he |
has no longer any thing to fear: be may
then, as 1t were, throw himself iato the |
crowd; he then no longer appears to give,
bat to follow ne impulse; no longer to be
hurried away by the impetuositv OF his own 1
feelings, but by the tumuituous passions
of his audience, and by thus Incorporating
him self with them, by this action and re.
action, his victory is secure, his triumph /
becomes compleas. l