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Whither will his grief have fled while he is thus
engaged? Where has the fountain of his tears been
stayed? How came this callous attention to the
rules of text-books to obtrude itself? Will he not
rather, from his opening words to the very last he
utters, maintain a continuous voice of lamentation
and a mien of unvaried woe, if he desires to transplant his grief to the hearts of his audience? For
if he once remits aught of his passion of grief, he
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will never be able to recall it to the hearts of them
that hear him.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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