| Francis Wayland - 1859 - 412 Seiten
...gazed with reverential despair. Eloquence then, with a power which has never since been equalled, " Wielded at will that fierce democracie, Shook the...fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." But had this wonderful development of the taste any power to reform the moral character of man ? Far... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1859 - 422 Seiten
...with reverential despair. Eloquence then, with a power which has never since been equalled, "Wiclded at will that fierce democracie, Shook the arsenal,...fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." But had this wonderful development of the taste any power to reform the moral character of man ? Far... | |
| George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 376 Seiten
...Alexander the Great was the pupil of Aristotle, while Demosthenes " Wielded at will that fierce Democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne." Thus we trace Demosthenes and Alexander, the master spirits in the struggle of Grecian independence... | |
| 1859 - 984 Seiten
...from which he and Demosthenes and other Grecian orators. — Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne, — addressed the people, is a large rock in the Pnyz, or public market, separated by a valley from... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 Seiten
...famons 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." — MILTON. THE celebrity of the great classical writers is confined within no limits, except those... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 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... | |
| 1860 - 926 Seiten
...and school of the world. He spoke from the place, where the voice of the orator had so often — " Shook the arsenal and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." He stood in the presence of an immense assembly, in the midst of Grecian temples, surrounded on every... | |
| Demosthenes - 1861 - 432 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... | |
| Demosthenes - 1861 - 486 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 Seiten
...them Demosthenes, forging by tho lij:ht of the midnight lamp those thunderbolts of eloquence which "Shook the arsenal and fulmined over Greece, — To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." Ask them if Cicero would have been hailed with rapture as the father of his country, if he had not... | |
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