 Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...  Bentley's Miscellany - Seite 4281851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 Seiten
...relevant to ourselves than Milton expressed, let us — " To the famous orators repair, Those ancients, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce...fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." In considering the eloquence of the Colonial and Revolutionary period of our history, we shall find... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...poet of man, England's " myriad-minded bard." Yet we confess that the power and productions of him " Whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce...arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon, and Artaxcrxes' throne," to our own \mind, far transcends them all ; and if asked to point to the finest... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 Seiten
...her mightiest orators. Hither resorted the intellectual sovereigns of the world; the patriots who " Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and ARTAXERXES' throne." It was thence that Demosthenes spoke, and excited or calmed the sea of popular commotion, more powerful... | |
 | 1848 - 786 Seiten
...principle. The Grecian Orator " — whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes throne" — addressed men of like capabilities and passions with those who listen to the Christian preacher.... | |
 | 1848 - 780 Seiten
...principle. The Grecian Orator " — whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon and Artaxerxes throne" — addressed men of like capabilities and passions with those who listen to the Christian preacher.... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1849 - 364 Seiten
...Eloquence then, with a power which has never since been equalled, "Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." But had this wonderful development of the taste any power to reform the moral character of man ? Far from... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1849 - 356 Seiten
...then, with a power which has never since been equalled, "Wielded at TV-ill that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne." But had this wonderful development of the taste any power to reform the moral character of man ? Far from... | |
 | Robert Rantoul - 1850 - 144 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,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 Seiten
...Oi's ¡¿т' ¿v Xóyoisrj «cXii-eio.— ße Folia legation», p. IOS, Shilleto'i edition. 414 415 Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon,...Artaxerxes' throne." , But, to draw again from the same Mil tonic source, Demosthenes was one " fallen on evil days." The Athens which he harangued was far... | |
 | 1851 - 608 Seiten
...far-famed oratory, of which Milton has said — " Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancients, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce...democracy, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedonia, and Artaxerxes' throne."t t THOCTDIDES, ii. § 82, 88. t ParadiK Regained, iv. 263. 1851.]... | |
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