Careful Words

eloquent (adj.)

  O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618): Historie of the World. Book v. Part 1.

It will discourse most eloquent music.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

That old man eloquent.

John Milton (1608-1674): To the Lady Margaret Ley.

Tully was not so eloquent as thou,

Thou nameless column with the buried base.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 110.