Word: cloquent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they do rise and chirp and with them all the Tower. So I up too, and awhile to watch the River which so early in the morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato does give both; and I am glad...
...Renaissance. From the medleval scribesmen, from the letters of Petrarch, he devised the beautiful type which even today is reserved for the greatest books. From the scribesmen also he took the manuscripts on which for centuries they had been perpetuating the classics: he printed them with copious and cloquent notes, and scattered them throughout the libraries of Italy. Out of these the artists of the Renaissance took the sudden vision and the new ideal which made them famous...