That centre of convulsions and source of streams possessed the statistical orator, the reasoning orator, and the inspired; with others of quality; and yet it had need of an ever-ready spontaneous imperturbable speaker, whose bubbling generalizations and ability to beat the drum humorous could swing halls of meeting from the grasp of an enemy, and then ascend on Incalescent adjectives to the popular idea of the sublime.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith