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He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors. At one time, I, merely in common civility, asked after her cough; immediately her long visage relaxed into a smile, and she favoured me with a particular history of that and her other infirmities, followed by an account of her pious resignation, delivered in the usual emphatic, declamatory style, which no writing can portray. This fixed idea of the rhapsodist was delivered with animated enthusiasm, in a manner entirely declamatory, for he had plainly no skill as a dialectician. |
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declamatory - ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
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