The style of our author is seen at its worst in the peroration to The Jewel, in which he apologizes for the comparative simplicity, if not baldness, by which, in the opinion of some, it might be thought to be characterised.
As a final example of what a good peroration should be, consider the following conclusion of Webster's speech, delivered in the United States Senate, on The Presidential Veto of the United States Bank Bill.
The peroration is the most important part of an argument, and on it the debater should lavish his greatest care.
This practice is not recommended except in special cases, and yet a debater should be so familiar with his peroration that he will have no difficulty in putting it into vigorous and pleasing language.
The peroration marks the final opportunity for the arguer to move his audience.
The peroration of an argument is like the finish of a race or the last charge in a battle.
In this peroration Webster's emotional appeal was so strong that, it is said, there was not a dry eye in the court room.
The something "left out" of Webster's reported argument was, of course, his extemporaneous and emotional peroration described by Goodrich.
Undoubtedly it was at this point that the incomparable actor, lawyer, and orator added to his prepared peroration that dramatic passage which has found a permanent place in the literature of emotional eloquence.
His brief peroration was eloquence of the noblest order.
Then Webster swept grandly forward to that famous peroration ending with the words which in time became the inspiring motto of the whole American people: "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
In his peroration the speaker commented upon Toombs's tergiversation with such effective severity it elicited wild applause from the men of his side.
The same note indeed was touched by Virgil in his lines upon the forlorn nightingale, and in the peroration to the third 'Georgic.
After a tirade upon their insolence and unbecoming conduct, his peroration was a warning not to infringe upon the royal prerogative.
The proper peroration of the speech, according to Indian etiquette, was the casting down of a wampum war-belt with verbal assurances and in symbolic intent that the British would live and die with their brethren the Iroquois.
Even at an age when I did not really know much more about the Duke of Grafton than did Leaker, and probably cared less, I had got the peroration of the first letter to the Duke of Grafton by heart.
They may well serve as a peroration to this chapter.
Intending to amplify his peroration by a figure he said, "Swear, but I will prescribe the oath.
Sir Robert's peroration to this speech was an elaborate one, and consisted in praises of himself.
This peroration brought Webster as an invisible presence into thousands of homes in the North.
He had quoted in his peroration passage after passage from the Jewish prophets, telling of the City of Peace whose walls rose now before their eyes.
I suggest to you three heads--what has happened, what is happening, what will happen, with a peroration as to what should happen.
As the lines floated across his memory, the Master had a mind to employ them in his peroration (giving them a Christian trend, of course) in place of the sonnet he had meant to quote.
My wits were wool-gathering, over the sermon--that little peroration of mine does not please me somehow.
A remarkable instance of this is seen in his word for word adaptation of the long peroration of Arcangeli (pamphlet 8) in the close of the monologue of the Arcangeli of the poem.
Browning has taken the peroration used in the first lawyer's monologue, R.
Father Forbes paused, then added with a twinkle in his eye: "That peroration is from an old sermon of mine, in the days when I used to preach.
The sustaining sparkle of their gaze lifted him to a peroration unrivalled in his own recollection of himself.
The speech occupied two hours and forty minutes, and the peroration was thrilling.
He spoke for three hours; his peroration was so grandly eloquent as to bring down the House and galleries in a round of applause.
With which magnificent peroration she swept all the carvings--they were rightfully hers--off the table.
He omits the passage about Coniah precisely because its application to Charles is unfortunately no longer possible; and the peroration for the rest is modified by the sorrow that so it should be.
What Scott did that day in the House Milton had done even more publicly a fortnight before in the daring peroration of his pamphlet.
On May 8th I recorded in my diary that "Gladstone's noble delivery of his peroration last night saved the evening from being a complete fiasco, but only just saved it.
This selection is the peroration to Mr. Webster's second speech on Foote's resolution.
