 | Alpheus Crosby - 1841 - 272 pàgines
...human life ; High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will...arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedón, and Artaxerxes' throne : To sage philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the low-roofed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pàgines
...age, like the orators of Athens, " the eye of Greece," ad mother of arts and rhetoric, — " Those ancient«, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will...arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedón and Artaxeries' throne." There is, however, a satisfaction to the reader in turning from the gorgeous descriptions... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - 1844 - 518 pàgines
...human life ; High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will...arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedón, and Artaxerxes' throne : To sage philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the low-roofed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pàgines
...human life, High actions and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ears of age. He received him kindly, washed his feet, provided supper, and caused him to sit down ; fulmin'd over Greece, Го Macedón and Artaxerxcs' throne : Го sage Philosophy next lend thine ear,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1851 - 1078 pàgines
...genius, being associated with the renown of Demosthenes, and the other famed Athenian orators, 41 Whole resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce démocratie,...arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedón, and Artaxerxei' throne." On proceeding without the city, our attention is attracted by the ruins of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pàgines
...** High actions and high passions best describing : * Thence to the famous orators z repair, Those ancient,' whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will...fierce démocratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined o'er Greece* ro Ч Blind Sfelesigenes, tJience Homer cnll'd. Our author here follows Herodotus, in... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1859 - 654 pàgines
...much resembled his own ', and whose death like his proved how true were his own words', — " Pacis est comes, otiique socia, et jam beue constitutae...whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal and fulrainecl over Greece To Macedón.' And now "the old man eloquent5"... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1859 - 626 pàgines
...death like his proved how true were his own words ', — " Pacis est comes, otiique socia, et jam bene constitutae civitatis quasi alumna quaedam, eloquentia."...will that fierce démocratie, Shook the arsenal and fnlmined over Greece To Macedón.' And now " the old man eloquent s " of this generation, closes the... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pàgines
...life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will...démocratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece 27° To Macedón and Artaxerxes' throne : To sage philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 418 pàgines
...of the subjectmatter. ON THE ATHENIAN ORATORS. (AoovsT 1824.) " To the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will...arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedón and Artaxerxes' throne." MILTOS. THE celebrity of the great classical writers is confined within no limits,... | |
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Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce démocratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over... 
