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It is remembered, not so much by reason of the preacher as by reason of the apparent acquiescence and admiration of the audience, who seemed to be perfectly willing to take over an experience from their pastor if indeed it was really an experience which was not their own.
The audience doubtless welcomed long monologues if they were well delivered and presented ideas of worth. The theater took the place of lectures, newspapers, magazines, and, to a certain extent, of books.
The feminine world preponderates also in the fragments. III. XIV. Livius Andronicus III. XIV. Audience We subjoin, for comparison, the opening lines of the -Medea- in the original of Euripides and in the version of Ennius:
The long dress-box, which had been stored away ever since its arrival, was brought out, and its contents displayed to an admiring audience, consisting of Mrs Asplin, Esther, Mellicent, and Mary the housemaid. Everything was there that the heart of girl could desire, and a mother's forethought provide for her darling's use when she was far-away.
"Perhaps you would be kind enough to tell me just how you think that part should be played?" Mr Goble marched down the aisle. "Speak out to the audience," he said, stationing himself by the orchestra pit. "You're turning your head away all the darned time."
By some queer chance she had lit on the very lines that he had learned from the old school reader and recited before an audience the last day prior to vacation. He woke from his reveries to discover that she was giving him Tennyson, that fragment from "Guinevere" when Arthur tells her of the dream her guilt has tarnished.
Smith tugged at his beard with both hands, smiling, and his audience burst out laughing. They could appreciate a joke, it seemed, and he was glad to see that their temper to him was friendly, for the moment at least. One of the older men pointed to the pocket in his jerkin and asked what he had in it.
And I'm entirely willing to discuss with him and defend any measures passed in the legislature of this state by a Republican majority. Perhaps," I added, "the gentleman has a copy of the law in his pocket, that I may know what he is talking about, and answer him intelligently." At this there was wild applause. I had the audience with me.
But what a man is he, who is to be driven from the stage by a line? Another line would have driven him from his shop. I told him, that I was engaged as Counsel at the bar of the House of Commons to oppose a road-bill in the county of Stirling, and asked him what mode he would advise me to follow in addressing such an audience.
The veteran speaker Barney Berlyn says, every little while, "you understand," but he is so terribly in earnest, and so forceful in his style, that no one but a cold blooded critic would ever notice it. Another speaker I know in the west, asks his audience about every ten minutes, "Do you get my point?"
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