The party came in one after another, and the spirits of all were kindled brighter and brighter, and we fairly sat up till after two o'clock.

I think, therefore, we may now safely boast the Plymouth expedition has gone off admirably." Mr.Ticknor was a man of learning and scholarship, just returned from a prolonged sojourn in Europe, where he had met and conversed with all the most distinguished men of the day, both in England and on the Continent.

He was not, therefore, disposed by training or recent habits to indulge a facile enthusiasm, and such deep emotion as he experienced must have been due to no ordinary cause.

He was, in fact, profoundly moved because he had been listening to one of the great masters of eloquence exhibiting, for the first time, his full powers in a branch of the art much more cultivated in America by distinguished men of all professions than is the custom elsewhere.

The Plymouth oration belongs to what, for lack of a better name, we must call occasional oratory.