 Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon...  Frederick Douglass: the Colored Orator - Pàgina 124per Frederic May Holland - 1891 - 423 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1804 - 510 pàgines
...in ter, His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! in there not some chosen eurer. Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man. Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? Рor. Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness, And... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1804 - 400 pàgines
...fifteen years of age! Can one-help thinking, part of that noble speech in Cato applicable in this case: " Is there not some chosen curse, " Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, " Big with uncommon wrath, to blast the man « Who " void of humanity, inhospitably ensnares, and brutally... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 432 pàgines
...The fiery red conveys the idea of anger, and in this sense it a often used by the poets. O, Portiusl is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder...Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? AUDI SON'S CATO. And again in Milton : Should intermitted... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 422 pàgines
...anger, and in this sense it is often used by the poets. O, Portius! is there not some chosen curae, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? ADDIION'I C.MO. And again in Milton : Should intermitted... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1808 - 220 pàgines
...shouts and drunken reveiry. We hope these, and all like miscreants will find that there is — " '• some chosen curse " Some hidden thunder in the stores..." Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man " Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin." Gracious heaven '. when we consider the removal of the siclv,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 446 pàgines
...Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter ; His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heav'n, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? Par.... | |
 | George Farquhar - 1808 - 338 pàgines
...Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter ; His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heav'n, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? Por.... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pàgines
...would be done by, spending his time, and amassing a fortune, in buying and selling his fellow-men ! " Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wravh, to blast the man, Who gains his fortune from the blood of souls >." abominations; to rouse them... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pàgines
...Rome's citizens, and drench'd inslaughhis horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood. [ter, Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse, , some hidden thunder...heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? Par. Believe me, Marcus, 't is an impious greatness and mixt... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pàgines
...Koine's citizens, and drench'd inslaughhis horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood. [ter, Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder...heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? For. Believe me, Marcus, 't is an impious greatness and rnixt... | |
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