Nevertheless his own Lays of Ancient Rome, 1842, are good, stirring verse of the emphatic and declamatory kind, though their quality may be rather rhetorical than poetic.
His epistle of Eloisa to Abelard is declamatory and academic, and leaves the reader cold.
Somewhat stilted and declamatory in speech, Kemble enacted a wide range of characters of Shakespearean tragedy with a dignity that won the admiration of Pitt, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt.
But Bensley's powers were rated more moderately by more experienced playgoers.
The text here appeared in a rough and imperfect state.
From this declamatory applause, which even La Harpe allows to be worthy of the translator of Juvenal, the most rigid censor of our author can not detract much; nor can much perhaps be added to it by his warmest admirer.
His sense is good, but not ingenious, and thedeclamatory tone weakens its effect.
The following lines, which conclude the twelfth and last satire, may serve as a specimen of Alamanni’s declamatory tone of invective, and his bitter attacks on Rome, whom he is addressing.
Labouchere's speeches, even when delivered to a large public meeting, were pitched in a conversational key, and he never attempted a declamatory flight.
Speaking; in a speaking ordeclamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Thus, the declamatory music became of great importance, and Gluck's recitative reached an unequalled degree of perfection.
In his recitatives the sound is continually in opposition to the sense, though they occasionally contain happy declamatory passages.
He elaborated the recitative or declamatory element in opera with great care, and insisted that his singers should make this the object of their most careful efforts.
In Paris he had been struck with the operas of Rameau, in which the declamatory form was strongly marked.
With Lawes, then, what we may call the declamatory branch of the English school culminated.
Except in his avowedly declamatory passages, Purcell did not spin his web precisely thus; but we shall presently see that his method was derived from the declamatory method.
Chesterfield says that Pitt's 'eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way.
However imperfectly his speech may be reported, it has much of that energy of declamatory invective which is part of the tradition connected with his name.
The public was unable to understand the aims of a man who, having a heroic tenor on the stage in a grand situation, would not write a pealing aria for him, but persisted in making him tell a story in a long declamatory recitative.
The description of the church, the rustic youth, and the patriarchal clergyman has, however, the note of experience and the touch of earth which we miss in the moredeclamatory passages.
The whole force of revived Hellenism was concentrated in thisdeclamatory skill.
Whole passages in his poems read like declamatory exercises turned into verse.
Bennett was a bitter opponent of Wagner; but in the unvocal and declamatory character of this solo, and in the dramatic force he has given to it, to the sacrifice of melody, he certainly ventured some distance in the Wagnerian direction.
The question is sung and repeated in declamatory tones constantly increasing in power and expressive of defiance.
Much of it reads like a declamatory school essay on the duties of a constitutional king.
Defn: Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
Defn: A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Half a dozen of the "boys" were flocking around the ladies, and Blake was there sprawling over the railing as was his wont, and convulsing the assemblage every now and then with his outrageous travesties and declamatory outbursts.
These are the essential merits of good declamation, and it is in the true declamatory passages that Pope is at his best.
In the next few years Pope found other themes for the display of his declamatory powers.
One of the National Temperance societies had been utilizing the promising declamatory powers of the high school students of the country, through a series of county, district and state competitions, to influence the public.
It was odd that, with his declamatory skill, he rarely had a case in court, but proved unusually efficient in developing a collection agency, and gradually represented the Bad Accounts Department of more and more important concerns.
But are we so stuffed with declamatory affectation that we can no longer venture to say, that before we can set about moral culture, we must have the means of living.
Pierre Leroux reproduced it at least forty times, and it forms the stock-in-trade of all our declamatory second-rate reformers.
