. The Methodist magazine and quarterly review . tivation, the unstudied spontaniety of Dr. Fisks colloquial remarkbetrayed very little indeed of any such deliberate elaboration. Unpre-pared appropriateness was its prevailing characteristic. He affectedno polished points, or quick sprung antitheses. There were no pre-viously adjusted plans—no conversational ambushes—no preparedaccidents, and premeditated impromptus. You carried from his inter-course an impress of interest, as if you had experienced a sense ofdiffusive fascination; but you retained no one outstanding gem ofsurpassing brilliancy,
. The Methodist magazine and quarterly review . tivation, the unstudied spontaniety of Dr. Fisks colloquial remarkbetrayed very little indeed of any such deliberate elaboration. Unpre-pared appropriateness was its prevailing characteristic. He affectedno polished points, or quick sprung antitheses. There were no pre-viously adjusted plans—no conversational ambushes—no preparedaccidents, and premeditated impromptus. You carried from his inter-course an impress of interest, as if you had experienced a sense ofdiffusive fascination; but you retained no one outstanding gem ofsurpassing brilliancy, flinging a shade over the surrounding lus-tre, and itself endowed with a diamond indestructibleness. Heseldom flung out the elastic jeu desprit, to be rebounded around thecircle, reverberated into publicity, and stereotyped into a was not of the Johnsonian school a professed converser, norneeded he borrow from the Boswell school a colloquial reporter. He. jiever found it necessary to assert his social dignity, by arrogating tho. Eulogy on Dr* Fish 389 whole conversation: he dealt forth no elbow-chair orations, as if thesound of his own voice were the sweetest of music to his ear, trans-forming the parlor into a lecture-room, the social circle into anauditory, and the dialogue into soliloquy. Bland, cordial, animate,recollected, and dignified; flexible to all the varieties of rank or cha-racter ; sympathizing with the humblest, and courteous to the digni-tary ; dexterous in every difficulty, felicitous in every exigency, andself-possessed in every surprise, he diffused around his daily presenceand converse the atmosphere of his own pure, gentle, yet high tonedspirit; ever ready with the judicious counsel, the lucid illustration, orthe even-handed discussion ; now brightening up the scene with acheery, yet chastened humor ; now sobering it away with the recollec-tive monition, checking the possibly rising impropriety by the powersof severely silent rebuke; or even
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