...against the "Attic coldness" of style which, he says, would soon empty the benches of their occupants. He would have the action and bearing of the speaker...too far off to hear, should " know that there was a Roscius on the stage." He would have found a Trench audience in this respect more sympathetic than...

...against the "Attic coldness" of style which, he says, would soon empty the benches of their occupants. He would have the action and bearing of the speaker...spectator, too far off to hear, should "know that there was a Eoscius on the stage." He would have found a French audience in this respect more sympathetic than...

...have lost much in that we can only read the orations of Cicero instead of listening to him, yet it is possible that the loss is not as great as it seems....some one has said, " he had all the gifts of nature and training which go to make the perfect orator — an impressionable nature, a vivid imagination,...