Great Southerners Being a Series of Short Sketches of Statesmen Military Capta
Great Southerners Being a Series of Short Sketches of Statesmen Military Capta
Will T Will Thomas Hale
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12 WILLIAM E. MUNSEY. THERE has hardly been a time, perhaps, when there were not what the stump speakers call "ca- lamity howlers. " Since Homer there have always been men to take the pessimistic view of Me- res, who in 1598 in The, Witfs Treasury, while complimenting the poet Dray ton, spoke of "these declining and corrupt times, when there is nothing but roguery in villainous man. " Smollet in 1770 made one of his characters refer to "these times of dullness and degeneracy. " There are no gre...at poets and painters; there are no superb actors since Booth and Barrett passed away! All these assertions are but echoes of criticisms made when Shakespeare lived and Hume wrote and Garrick and Forrest acted their roles. Oratory even is said to be declining, while the public has reached a time when eloquence cannot move it, according to the chronic complainers, . (178) GREAT SOUTHERNERS. 179 But the fact is, there will hardly come a pe- riod when oratory will not be potent in swaying men, or when it will fail to be attractive.
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