lightning-grand

Updated: May 14, 2025

If his predecessor might be compared to a dexterous and elegant boxer, Canning presented the image of a finished antique gladiator. All was noble, simple, refined; then suddenly his eloquence burst forth like lightning-grand and all-subduing. His speech was, from every point of view, the most complete, as well as the most irresistibly persuasive the crown and glory of the debate.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century