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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
nd sonorous sentences, especially the opening passage, the sentences, Lais and Phryne have fled, etc., Works, vol. i. p. 282. and indeed the whole eulogy on Allston, make me a boy again as I recall them. The admiration of Sumner's person and eloquence was not confined to his own sex, but was even greater with the other. One young lady described forty years later her impressions as she listened to him The lady's father, a Democrat of the Jackson school, and a solid citizen of Middlesex County, wrote in his journal a full description of the oration and the scene.:— He seemed to me a new Demosthenes or Cicero, even like a Grecian god, as he stood on the platform. I thought him the handsomest and the finest looking man I had ever seen. His presence was superb, a trifle haughty perhaps; but that only added to his grandeur. I remember the remark of a lady who was sitting beside me, that she was already in love with his hair. It was heavy, and fell over one side of his b