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 Debates in Congress - Seite 579von United States. Congress - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Lane Cooper - 1917 - 306 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-roofed house Of Socrates;... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922
...famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, "). Sung at a public dinner, May 28, 1802. 20 Gratus animus est una virtus non s MILTON — Paradise Regained. Bk. IV. L. 267. The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909
...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 —... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - 251 Seiten
...famous Orators repair, Those ancient whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce deraocraty, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." PR, iv., 11. 267-271. 2 The oddest feature in so odd a business was that Augustus committed this castigation... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844
...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 - 71 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
...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
...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... | |
 | ...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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