 Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 67by Alexander Pope - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...amuse you with stories of savage men and " * uncouth manners, yet shall before you taste of death " 4 show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which " < now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever Eng" < land has been growing to by a progressive increase of (t ' improvement, brought in by varieties... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...England as much as she had acquired by a progressive increase of improvement, brought on, by varieties of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years. A vision has passed before my eyes ; the spirit of prophecy is upon me. Listen, now, to a revelation... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show...increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of pecple, by succession of civilizing conquests, and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen... | |
 | Peter Burke - Great Britain - 1854 - 340 pages
...drink to the repose of the old gentleman that has left us." BUBKE'S SPLENDID BURSTS OF ELOQUENCE. 87 you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole...by a progressive increase of improvement, brought on by varieties of people, by succession of civilising conquests and civilising settlements in a series... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1854 - 424 pages
...which at this day ' ' serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of "savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall before you ' ' taste of death show itself equal to the whole of that com, '"merce which now attracts the envy of the world. What"'ever England has been growing to by a... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - History - 1855 - 600 pages
...more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce...England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvements, brought in by variety of people, by successsion of civilizing conquests and civilizing... | |
 | George E. Baker - 1855 - 424 pages
...England as much as she had acquired by a progressive increase of improvement, brought on, by varieties of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years. A vision has pas'sed before my eyes ; the spirit of prophecy is upon me. Listen, now, to a revelation... | |
 | John Shaw (M.D.) - Travel - 1857 - 324 pages
...America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show...settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in a single life !' " If this state of his country had... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 654 pages
...amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now...settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life. If this state of his... | |
 | Religion - 1857 - 830 pages
...which, at this day, serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men nnd uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show...commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.' We have alluded to this well-known but ever fresh and fine prosopopœia of the great Englishman, because... | |
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