“Climacteric Sublimity.” — 315
The following peroration to an eloquent harangue, addressed to a jury by a lawyer in Ohio, is a rare specimen of climacteric sublimity:—“And now the shades of night had shrouded the earth in darkness. All nature lay wrapped in solemn thought, when these defendant ruffians came rushing like a mighty torrent from the hills, down upon the abodes of peace, broke open the plaintiff’s door, separated the weeping mother from her crying infant, and took away—my client’s rifle, gentlemen of the jury, for which we claim fifteen dollars.”