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Eloquence

Ambrose, St.

bees, prophetic of fluency, landed in his mouth. [Christian Hagiog: Brewster, 177]

Antony, Mark

gives famous speech against Caesar’s assassins. [Br. Lit.: Julius Caesar]

Arnall, Father

his sermons fill Stephen with the fear of hell-fire. [Br. Lit.: Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]

bees on the mouth

pictorial and verbal symbol of eloquence. [Folklore and Christian Iconog.: Brewster, 177]

Bragi

god of poetry and fluent oration. [Norse Myth.: LLEI, I: 324]

Calliope

chief muse of poetic inspiration and oratory. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 177]

Churchill, Winston

(1874–1965) statesman whose rousing oratory led the British in WWII. [Br. Hist.: NCE, 556]

Cicero

(106–43 B. C.) orator whose forcefulness of presentation and melodious language is still imitated. [Rom. Hist.: NCE, 558]

Demosthenes

(382–322 B.C.) generally considered the greatest of the Greek orators. [Gk. Hist.: NCE, 559]

Gettysburg Address

Lincoln’s brief, moving eulogy for war dead (1863). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 286–287]

King, Martin Luther, Jr

. (1929–1968) civil rights leader and clergyman whose pleas for justice won support of millions. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1134]

lotus

symbol of eloquence. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175]

Mapple, Father

preaches movingly and ominously on Jonah. [Am. Lit.: Melville Moby Dick]

Paine, Thomas

(1737–1809) powerful voice of the colonies; wrote famous “Common Sense.” [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 369–370]

Webster, Daniel

(1782–1852) noted 19th-century American orator-politician. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 539]