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Updated: May 29, 2025
I therefore found the court rather crowded, particularly by an unusual number of 'the unemployed bar, who generally throng to hear a maiden-speech. The common dodge of these gentry, continued he in a disrespectful tone. 'They never find that it will be impossible to attend so long as the honorarium is unpaid; afterwards Bah! Mere robbery, sir taking the money, and shirking the work.
Well, then, let yonder shaggy rock mid-deep in the surf see! he is somewhat wrathful: he rages and roars and foams, let that tall rock be my antagonist, and let me exercise my oratory like him of Athens who bandied words with an angry sea and got the victory. My maiden-speech is a triumphant one, for the gentleman in seaweed has nothing to offer in reply save an immitigable roaring.
At class-meetings I'm a kicker, Take no water with my liquor, And a dumb-bell's not thicker Than my head. I'm a Senior whose diploma's within reach, Eighty-four. On Commencement Day you'll hear my maiden-speech; I will soar! I got through without condition; I'm a mass of erudition; Do you know of a position!" "Our street is still and silent, Grass grows from curb to curb,
"And a disease that can be had but once in life, I am afraid," replied her lord laughing; "and yet," as if believing in that at which he laughed, "it evaporates in most men in words, written or spoken, lasts till the first pamphlet is published, or till the maiden-speech in parliament is fairly made, and fairly paid for in all honour all honourable men."
We have already seen that, in his maiden-speech before the Senate, every one recognized the hand of Seneca, and many observed with a sigh that this was the first occasion on which an Emperor had not been able, at least to all appearance, to address the Senate in his own words and with his own thoughts.
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