We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,

But search of deep philosophy,

Wit, eloquence, and poetry;

Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): On the Death of Mr. William Harvey.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense

Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 868.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts

And eloquence.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 240.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,

Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 251.

Thence to the famous orators repair,

Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence

Wielded at will that fierce democratie,

Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece,

To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267.

In discourse more sweet;

For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.

Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,

In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high

Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,

Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute;

And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555.

No words suffice the secret soul to show,

For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Corsair. Canto iii. Stanza 22.