holding forth vs monologue

holding forth

monologue

verb
  • To deliver a monologue. 

noun
  • A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment. 

  • A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation. 

  • A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters. 

How often have the words holding forth and monologue occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )