 | James Montgomery - 1840 - 340 sidor
...grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of...chance, and change in human life, High actions, and nigh passions best describing : The first of these assertions will probably be admitted, — that eloquence... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 sidor
...grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook th' arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne: To sage... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 sidor
...grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne. SAMSON... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - 1841 - 272 sidor
...grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received, In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce démocratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedón, and Artaxerxes' throne : To... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 498 sidor
...principally remarkable ? 24. How did Philip behave on the occasion 1 SECTION II. The Life of Philip. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded ac will that fierce democracy, Shook th' Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes'... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sidor
...grave tragedians taught in Chorus or Iambic, teachers U-st Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd ss'd, and overthrown, as seei.Vd, Like that self-lrcgotten bird fn the chance in human life. High actions and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 sidor
...grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook th' arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne. To sage... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 558 sidor
...been principally, if not exclusively, confined to the historians, the philosophers, and the orators. Of fate, and chance and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing.* But if Legare had passed lightly over Parnassus and Helicon, he had dwelt long amid the other denizens... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 sidor
...grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne : To sage... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 sidor
...grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd e great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No...sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never thai fierce democraiie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes" throne... | |
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