… in the touch of a man I do like, even through two pairs of gloves, that I could not find it in my heart to cut short its eloquence.’ 1 Charlotte both claims a degree of female agency and acknowledges the excitement that forms of touch can …
… though himself the most egregious instance of modern luxury and corruption; speaks contemptuously of the Grecian eloquence, though the most elegant writer in the world; nay, employs preposterous digressions and declamations to this …
… all his luxury supreme, And his chief glory, was the gospel theme; There he was copious as old Greece or Rome, His happy eloquence seem'd there at home, Ambitious not to shine or to excel, But to treat justly what he loved so well. It moves …
… The Ladies have such a surprising Volubility of Tongue, which pours out of the Conceptions with so Vehement a Torrent of Eloquence, that it is necessary to have something to put a short Stop to it, that they may not too unwarily run …
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… metropolitan elite, and his audiences included a significant proportion of women won over by his charm and passionate eloquence. He expanded the audience for scientific experiments by deploying phenomena that evoked viewers’ sense of the …
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