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Fielden was as anxious and fond as most fathers, he grew a little impatient before comforters, kerchiefs, and muffettees were arranged, and minute exordiums as to the danger of crossing the street, and the risk of patting strange dogs, etc., were half-way concluded; with a shrug and a smile, he at length fairly pushed out the children, shut the door, and drew his chair close to his wife's.
In that highflown oratory, with its carefully studied exordiums, periods and perorations can be clearly discerned the reverence given to power as embodied by possession of property. But nowhere do we see any explanation, or even an attempt at explanation, of the basic means by which this property was acquired or of its effect upon the masses of the people.
Since we shall be the only people there! Then he goes out by the door to the right. "You're so artistic," my cousin Eleanor Copt began. Of all Eleanor's exordiums it is the one I most dread.
And in each one of the exordiums he invokes the Muse that she may make the value of what is said greater and more divine. While the characters introduced by him are made to say many things either to their relatives or friends or enemies or the people, yet to each he assigns a fitting type of speech, as in the beginning he makes Chryseis in his words to the Greeks use a most appropriate exordium.
Soon after Evadne's dream had materialized John Randolph had sent her a dainty little equipage to help on the work. "You are too kind!" she cried, as she thanked him, "too generous!" "Can we be that?" he asked, "when we are giving to a King? It is a theory of mine that a drive in the country with the right companion is better than exordiums.
We can imagine the fervour with which the impressionable boy drank in stories of the sufferings of the royal family during their imprisonment in the Temple, and strove not to miss a syllable of his master's magnificent exordiums, which glowed with the light and heat of impassioned loyalty.
"I have a tale to tell," began the Secretary, "and there are preliminaries and exordiums, but first of all there is a question. Frankly, Captain Prescott, what kind of a man do you think I am?" Prescott hesitated.
"Now what can you have to say, Granville, that will not be anticlimax to this exordium?" "I will say no more if you talk of exordiums and anti-climaxes," cried he. "You accused me yesterday of affectation twice, when I was no more affected than you are." "Oh! is that my crime? Is that, what has hurt you so dreadfully? Here is the thorn that has gone in so deep!
Some, therefore, specify two kinds of exordiums, one a beginning, the other an insinuation.
Here the visionary, observing that the countenance of Lucilla was stamped with a fixed attention, which she did not often bestow upon his metaphysical exordiums; paused for a moment; and then pursued the theme with the tone of one desirous of making himself at once as clear and impressive as the nature of an abstruse science would allow.
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