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 charmed the house with a different kind of eloquence — chaste — classical — beautiful — his polished periods roll- ing along without effort, filling the ear with the most bewitching harmony, and delighting the mind with the most exquisite imagery. The cultiv ated graces of Mr. Lee^s rhetoric received and at the same time reflected beauty, by their contrast with the wild and grand effu- sions of Mr. Henry. Just as those noble monuments of art which lie scattered through the celebrated landscape of Naples, at once adorn, and are in their turn adorned by the surrounding majesty of nature.

Two models of eloquence, each so perfect in its kind, and so finely contrasted, could not but fill the house with the highest admiration; and as Mr. Henry had be- fore been pronounced the Demosthenes, it was con- ceded on every hand, that Mr. Lee was the Cicero of America.

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