Declamation Definition

Declamation Sentence Examples

• For cool and sustained declamation he stood unrivalled in parliament, and his readiness in debate was universally acknowledged.

• Cobden did the reasoning, Bright supplied the declamation, but like Demosthenes he mingled argument with appeal.

• Several years after the death of Socrates the sophist Polycrates composed a declamation against him, to which Lysias replied.

• This didactic view of history was a prevalent one in antiquity, and it was confirmed no doubt by those rhetorical studies which in Rome as in Greece formed the chief part of education, and which taught men to look on history as little more than a storehouse of illustrations and themes for declamation.

• The splendid declamation of Camille, and the excellent part of the elder Horace, do not altogether atone for these defects.