Fifty years ago . consistent withthe duties of a person who has so much to do with thedestinies of Europe. Hence it is that the Timesnewspaper has fastened on him the sobriquet of Cupid. Mr. OConnell is a man of the highest order of2;enius. There is not a member in the House who, inthis respect, can for a moment be put in comparisonwith him. You see the greatness of his genius inalmost every sentence he utters. There are others—Sir Eobert Peel, for example—who have much more tactand greater dexterity in debate ; but in point of geniusnone approach to him. It ever and anon bursts forthwith a br
Fifty years ago . consistent withthe duties of a person who has so much to do with thedestinies of Europe. Hence it is that the Timesnewspaper has fastened on him the sobriquet of Cupid. Mr. OConnell is a man of the highest order of2;enius. There is not a member in the House who, inthis respect, can for a moment be put in comparisonwith him. You see the greatness of his genius inalmost every sentence he utters. There are others—Sir Eobert Peel, for example—who have much more tactand greater dexterity in debate ; but in point of geniusnone approach to him. It ever and anon bursts forthwith a brilliancy and effect which are quite over-whelming. You have not well recovered from the L 146 FIFTY YEARS AGO overpowering surprise and admiration caused by oneof his brilliant effusions, when another flashes uponyou and produces the same effect. You have no time,nor are you in a condition, to weigh the force of hisarguments ; you are taken captive wherever thespeaker chooses to lead you from beginning to DANIEL OCONNELL One of the most extraordinary attributes in oratory is the ease and facility with whichhe can make a transition from one topic to another. From grave to gay, from lively to severe, never costshim an effort. He seems, indeed, to be himself insen-sible of the transition. I have seen him begin his speechby alluding to topics of an affecting nature, in such a IN THE HOUSE 147 manner as to excite the deepest sympathy towards thesufferers in the mind of the most unfeehng personpresent. I have seen, in other words—I speak withregard to particular instances—the tear literally glis-tening in the eyes of men altogether unused to the
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