| Horace - 1831 - 352 páginas
...of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, 15 He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure aipidst a falling world. Such were... | |
| Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1831 - 354 páginas
...of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurFd, 15 He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Such... | |
| James Thacher - 1832 - 460 páginas
...which human nature is exposed, and of him who is possessed by them, the poet with propriety says, " Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. ' The... | |
| James Thacher - 1835 - 434 páginas
...which human nature is exposed, and of him who is possessed by them, the poet with, propriety says, " Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled1, He. unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world." 16*... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 páginas
...of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly Should the whole frame of nature round him break,...unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Such were the godlike arts that led Bright Pollux to the blest abodes... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 páginas
...of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break....unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Anm. THERE is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. Most... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 páginas
...of angry Jove. That flings the thunder from the sky. And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. •Should the whole frame of nature round him break. In ruin and confusion liurl'd. He. unconcern'd, would hear this mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.' The... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 páginas
...illabatur orbis ' and the next line will be a sufficient sample; its main fault is undue expansion : — ' Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.' Swift could not... | |
| William Shaw Russell - 1846 - 450 páginas
...which human nature is exposed, and of him who is possessed by them, the poet with propriety says, ' Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.' ' The... | |
| Robert Rantoul - 1852 - 56 páginas
...and obstinately just. Like Teneriffe, or Atlas, unremoved, The stubborn temper of his spirit proved. Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned would view the mighty wreck, And stand secure amid a falling world. But it... | |
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