 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
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 498 pàgines
...a Spade, does here appear (as a Ghost) to do justice to himself and witnesses. " Is there pot aome chosen curse, 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 V ADDISON'S CATO. London : Printed for T. Warner, near Ludgate,... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1815 - 376 pàgines
...and arrogance ; and substitute such impostors, for the true ambassadors of the Prince of Peace ! " Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores ofheav'n, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast such men ?" The injury they do is unutterable, for they... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood ! О Portius ! Ь there not some chosen curse, 714 BOOK III. 715 Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Wh" owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? Par. Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness,... | |
 | John Agg - 1817 - 308 pàgines
...sequel might well an arch-conjurer poze— O rare Orator Hunt ! MINISTERIAL QUALIFICATIONS. Is Acre not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the...heaven. Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to hii country's ruin? WHOEVER looks into history will find that a nation or a people... | |
 | George Charles - 1817 - 534 pàgines
...destruction of their country; but if there sho-uld, • • " , » is there not some chosen cwrse> Some hidden Thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man That owes his greatness to his country's ruin ! CATO. The reader has been already, in some measure,... | |
 | David Martin - 1819 - 124 pàgines
...he made use of a quotation to. this effect, I think— Is there not some chosen curse. Some secret thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the tvretch T. 'hat makes his fortune from the blood of souls When he made this quotation he was speaking... | |
 | William Hone - 1820 - 38 pàgines
...KIKTJ.KN CLTS. LONDON' PRINTED «Y AND FOR 45, LUDGATE 1820. , LEMOX AND T1U>JM» R -" Is there not Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the men Who owe their greatness to their country's ruin ?" Sctiicatctr TO THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING... | |
 | W. A. Coffey - 1823 - 260 pàgines
...hunger-wasting babes, upon the wheel of sensibility, without a single feeling of pity or remorse. " — — O '. is there not, some chosen curse, " Some hidden thunder in the stores of beav'n, " Red with uncommon wrath, to blast thefiendi, " Who'd build their greatness on another's wreck... | |
 | British drama - 1824 - 834 pàgines
...and drench'd in slaughter ; His horses' hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is not there some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder, in the stores...Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? I'M: Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness, And... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulphs him. Hill's Henry V. Ts 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 ? He,... | |
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