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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Eloquent
 
That old man eloquent.
        Milton.—Sonnet X. To Lady M. Ley. (Alluding to Isocrates, the Athenian orator.)		  1
        Was the slave so eloquent,
In his malice?
        Thos. Killegrew.—The Parson’s Wedding, Act I. Scene 1.		  2
Nor speaks loud, to boast her wit;
In her silence eloquent.
        Habington.—A Description of Castara, Verse 3.		  3
For silence here could eloquently plead.
        Dr. Joseph Beaumont.—Eve, v. V.		  4
The eloquent air breathes.
        Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto IV. Stanza 112. (On the Forum at Rome.)		  5
Likeness in thy work is eloquent.
        Dryden.—Epi. 14. (To Sir Godfrey Kneller.)		  6
Eloquent want, whose reasons sway,
And make ten thousand truths give way.
        Green.—On Barclay’s Apology for the Quakers, Line 89.		  7
 
 
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