 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 538 Seiten
...rhetoric, — " Those ancients. whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." There is, however, a satisfaction to the reader in turning from the gorgeous descriptions of Mr. Wirt... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1853 - 1016 Seiten
...Adams confronted power, wielding in his country's cause the weapons of an oratory like that, which " Shook the arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne," riving, with the thunderbolts of his genius, the miserable sophistries of the apologists of tyranny,... | |
 | 1838 - 860 Seiten
...bland and persuas.ve address of Ciaero, thau the resistless force of that Demosthenic oratory, which " shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece to Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne" ! • It has been urged against lawyers, that the zeal and earnestness which they display in the causa... | |
 | 1854 - 706 Seiten
...and soul, which made men, as they listened, think of him who "Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece — To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne ; " — that eloquence, to sum up all, which, every man in the land knows, was so powerful in arousing... | |
 | 62 Seiten
...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. Second Book. In the second book of the Iliad, w. 494-759, Homer ' tells the captains of the ships and... | |
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Thence to the 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 
