 In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing: Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce...  Lectures on poetry and general literature - Page 18by James Montgomery - 1833 - 394 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 424 pages
...exercise their control. \t -i ( "-JJ £*t ^C^Wfc^V^M 1 k \;u' ^i wi' n/<'V < L.32 ON THE ATHENIAN ORATORS. To the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose...will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and thundered over Greece To Macedon and Arlaieixes' throne. MILTON. THE celebrity of the great classical... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...grave tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight recpiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce démocratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulrain'd over Greece, To Macedón and Artaxerxes' throne : To... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...precepts, while they treat and chance, and change in human life, ions and high passions best describing: the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne : To sage... | |
 | English periodicals - 1844 - 730 pages
...teachers best Of moral wisdom, with delight received. In brief sententious precepts, while they teach Of fate and chance and change in human life. High actions and high passion* best describing! " But the great Italian has met with little congenial reception in England... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...orators repair, Those ancient, 1 whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, ' To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne. To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the low-roofed house Of Socrates;... | |
 | John Milton - 1846 - 638 pages
...In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of Fate, and Change, and change in human life ; 205 High actions and high passions best describing: Thence...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook th' arsenal and fulmined over Greece, 270 To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne : To... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, ami chance, and change in human life, High actions nnd high passions best describing : Thence to the famous...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce démocratie, íhook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedón and Artaxerxes' throne : To... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, 265 High actions aml high passions best describing: Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient,... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...poet of man, England's " myriad-minded bard." Yet we confess that the power and productions of him " whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal and Culmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne," to our own mind far transcends them all; and... | |
 | Religion - 1848 - 778 pages
...of the preacher of the gospel does not at all affect the general principle. The Grecian Orator "— whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce...and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes tbvone"— addressed men of like capabilities and passions with those who listen to the Christian preacher.... | |
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