 | John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1818 - 618 Seiten
...he composed and prepared for delivery, those noble orations upou the affairs'of Athens, in which ' resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the arsenal, and fulmincd over Greece To Maccdon and Artaxerxes' throne.' The times in which he lived were the most... | |
 | 1822 - 284 Seiten
...famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, 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-roof'd house Of Socrates:... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 Seiten
...principle. The Grecian Orator " — whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes throne" — addressed men of like capabilities and passions with those who listen to the Christian preacher.... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 Seiten
...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." Paradise Regained, book iv. valled style of prose, as numerous as the richest verse, — and Demosthenes... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1836 - 684 Seiten
...violence on his own head; and we think, too, of that " resistless eloquence" which, in that cause, "shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece to Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne;" whose animating sounds, at this distance of time, after the revolution of so many ages, still vibrate... | |
 | Christian correspondent - 1837 - 422 Seiten
...carried his cause by storm, and with " Resistless eloquence, Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the' arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." (') Then, as in contending with the billows he had in imagination the turbulence of the people, and... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 296 Seiten
...mortifying reception which Athens gave to him who afterwards became the chief of " Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne."* The story of his strenuous assiduity in... | |
 | John England - 1840 - 38 Seiten
...own Demosthenes to learn how they may succeed like him who "Wielded at will that fierce democrats, , Shook the. arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." PAR. KEY. They should know his weakness, avoid his faults and receive the solemn warning from his fate.... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1841 - 398 Seiten
...importance as the political speeches, nor can we expect to find in them the same fiery eloquence, which Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne. But they possess a peculiar merit of their own. Though we no longer recognize the lofty spirit of the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 Seiten
...famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, ncerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey SAMSON BEWAILING HIS BLINDNESS AND CAPTIVITY. (Attendant leading him.} rROM SAMSON AOONI8TKS. A LITTLE... | |
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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes... 
