, 1873-01-12

the light which ho threw upon every subject
! even the dullest, as tho sun turns the areariest
vapors into clouds Of gold,-so charmed BY the
words, 80 rich, 80 rotund, 80 msng-hued. thu.
passed before their gaze like flight Of purpls
birds,-that, like Adam, whose ears wsrs dlIeo
with the eloquence Of an Archangcl, the hearers
"forgot all place. seasons and their change. y
The enthusiastic Hazlitt, the conscientious John
Foster, and tho severely-c1iticel DeQuincev.
alike exhaust thair supcrIatives III testifyinp to
his power. "Ho spun daily" aays tie latter
"from the loom Of his own magical brain, theo.
ries more gorgeous far, and supported by lu1urr
Of images, such as no German that ever bresthed
could have cmulatcd in his dreams.' Much Of
tho effect OF Coleridge's elo1uence vas owing.
no doubt, to the Chains Of his manner; tor his
voice, it is said, Was naturally soft and good ::
and though it had contracted itself into
plaintiva snuffle and sing-song, so that his
Phrases Of German Technology, "obiectn and
"subject we're nasally organized into TOM
| inject, and 'sun1-m-ject," with ia kind
| Of solemn shake OF quarer as he rolled along y
yet there WIS dreamy soothing in bis aecaata.
it Is said, Of irresistible power. especially when
! poetry and imagination were the theme Of his
high argument. But the most brilliant eloauence
tires at last, and oven that OF the Highgste ssge
failed sometimes Of its witcbing effect upon the
! hearers ears. To sit eternally, as q mere buck
ct, and be pumped into,-to be acted on forever.
| and never to reac.,-is what no human being.
e1cepta Ounce, can long endure; and even those
who bowed to the sceptro Of this *.Autocrat Of
the Breakfast Table" felt, after theY had listen
cd to q so1iloquy Of five hours duration,
that they wers pumped full, and cried
"Hold+ enough!" Fsw will fail to
remember the story told By Theodore
Hook, Of q three hours' discourse from ths
Rapt one with the god-like forehead" which
was suggested by two soldiers seated by the
roadside, and Hooks characteristic observation
at the cloae: ''Thank Heavenl you did not See
. regiment, Coleridge, for in that case you would
never have stopped" Sir Walter Scott describes
dinner party at which he was equally bored
by most learned and everlasting harangue Of
Coleridge on the samothracian mysteries, Homer
and tho Wo1dan hypothesis, etc., etc., and con-
cludes the account with the impatient ezclama~
tfon, -"Zounds I was never so botlumped with
words." Yet doubtless there we're others Of tho
party who never dreamed that thay were either
cudgel1ed OF beaogged, aud who went away ex-
claiming to themselves,- j..
70" % charming Is divine philosophy
But musical as is Apol1o;s inte. :" N' 'pf''''
To mako a oood +,1ker 1on;r. . ri 1o..,,;no
aran wit and elonncnco-,r ;narf6c;a,+ !,
+hosa in all mr. in na,t n,not ba o53o1 :, INV.
diagram thu talents 1T active 1ifo The chor,c,ar
han an ,nncb n IN will, co1}oon.} ,o.er >. boz
the intellect the temporament. feelinrs md
animal spirits. even moro perhaps than the rcen.
tai rifta. NAPOLEON said tbincs which tell in
history like his battles. Luther'e Tabla Talk
rlovs with the fire v1,ic1, burnt tho pone,s Dn,1,
Cnsar, Cicero, Themistocios, Lcrd Bacon. se,dca,
Ta1leyrand,. and, in our own country. Aaron
Burr. Jeffarson. Webstar and choxte, Hare .l1
rnore or 1eas. men of action. Sir Walter -gcott
the lazvyers beat the Bishops ss taikera. end tha
Bishops the wits. Nearly all great orstors h.7e
been fine takers. Lord Chatham. who cou1d
e1ectrify the House of Lords bv nronouncine thu
word Sugar. but who in iyriyato wsa bnt eou,-
monn1ace. waa an e1cont;on. Init thu conrerea-
ton OF Pitt and Fo1 was brilliant and fascinas.
inp.-thst Of Rnrke rambling: bt1t a,1endid.
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