...it by brevity, endeavored to recommend it by dignity and splendor. His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature; when he endeavored, like other tragic writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring...

...saying that " his tragedy was skill," he affirms in the next page, " His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the...writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to shew how much his stores of knowledge could supply,...

...what he studies most : but you have high authority on your side — " His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature," as Dr. Johnson says. I said, that one of the striking inferiorities in Bacon to Plato was that you...