The force of eloquence is not merely a train of just and vigorous reasoning, which is not incompatible with dryness; this force, requires Floridity, striking images, and energetic expressions.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh
The long-lived English love for "crying" colours shows itself amusingly enough in the early pictorial representations of several of Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims, though in Floridity of apparel, as of speech, the youthful "Squire" bears away the bell:- Embroidered was he, as it were a mead All full of freshest flowers, white and red.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
The odd thing is that with these two domes to teach him better the designer of the Chapel of the Princes should have indulged in such Floridity.
"A Wanderer in Florence"
E. V. Lucas