Many casual phrases in his works,
besides many quotations, show his familiarity with Cicero's
writing on oratory.
If you would get some faint, far-off conception of him, first
look at the best bust or picture of Everett you can find.
Imagine the figure with its every movement gentle and graceful.
The head and face are suggestive of Greek sculpture. This
person sits on the platform with every expression discharged
from the face, looking like a plaster image when the artist
has just begun his model, before any character or intelligence
has been put into it. You think him the only person in the
audience who takes no interest whatever in what is going on,
and certainly that he expects to have nothing to do with it
himself. He is introduced. He comes forward quietly and
gracefully. There is a slight smile of recognition of the
welcoming applause. The opening sentences are spoken in a
soft--I had almost said, a caressing voice, though still a
little cold. I suppose it would be called a tenor voice.
There was nothing in the least unmanly about Edward Everett.
Yet if some woman had spoken in the same tones, you would
have not thought them unwomanly.
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