 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
 | Isocrates - Athens (Greece) - 1854 - 154 pages
...sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; Htgh acttons and htgh passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators...resistless eloquence . Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To MacedQn, and Artaxerxes' throne. To sage... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...High actions and high passions best describing: Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancients, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne. exactness of art, we mate assertions which... | |
 | Isocrates - Athens (Greece) - 1854 - 156 pages
...famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, 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 - 1855 - 620 pages
...In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of Fate, and Chance, and change in human life ; 20fl High actions and high passions best describing: Thence...eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook th' arsenal and fulmined over Greece, 270 To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne: To sage Philosophy next... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...true, that success as an orator implies talents in.compatible with success as an author. Demosthenes, 'whose resistless eloquence, wielded at will that...democratic, shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,' carefully elaborated his orations, in the solitude of his study. Cicero is a conspicuous example of... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1855 - 472 pages
...power and productions of him " Whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy,— Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon. and Artaxerxes' throne," to our own mind, far transcends them all; and if asked to point to the finest exhibition of intellectual... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...precepts, while they treat Of moral prudence, with delight received Of fate, and chance, and cnange in human life; High actions, and high passions best...Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, 9 whose resistless eloquence (1) Attic tird—See note 3, p. 71. (2) Trittt her, &c.—" There never... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...praise. Book iv. Line 240. Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. Book iv. Line 267. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient,...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. Book iv.... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...drama; but the words have a more universal application as finely describing the themes of all tragedy : "Fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing ;" themes involving what is most momentous in man's moral nature. The great poet, in all ages of the... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - Civilization - 1856 - 182 pages
...gradually changed the whole face of society. Where, but in a city, flowed forth the eloquence that " shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece to Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne ?" In cities have been brought O forth the wonderful creations of the pencil; poetry has tuned her... | |
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