 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
 | William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pàgines
...and nerves, of God's children. The thoughts of such a traffic causes us to exclaim with the poet, " Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Eed with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who gains his fortune from the blood of souls ?" Between... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 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.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pàgines
...Home'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...heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS. Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness,... | |
 | 1854 - 836 pàgines
...horses' hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is not there some chosen curse, Some bidden thunder, in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? Por. Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness, And... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 596 pàgines
...Rome's citizens, and drenched 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, Eed with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? POE. Believe... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pàgines
...Home's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician Hood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Bed with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1854 - 820 pàgines
...in the bodies and souls of men, and of those whom they employ in this inhuman, horrid business ? " Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Kcd with uncommon wrath, to blast these men," — who owe their riches to such aggravated, detestable... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 pàgines
...and nerves, of God's children. The thought of such a traffic causes us to exclaim with the poet, - Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder...man Who gains his fortune from the blood of souls? " Between fifty and sixty slaves were chained together, put on board a steamboat bound for New Orleans,... | |
 | George Robertson - 1855 - 422 pàgines
...you will, at last, surely fall, and be cursed both in this world and in that which is to come. "Oh! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with tha uncommon wrath, To blast the wretch who owes His greatness to his country's ruin." In political,... | |
 | Anna Ella Carroll - 1856 - 422 pàgines
...from the service of their country, those who have given honor, fame and glory to the American name! " 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 ?" 13* ' CHAPTER XX. THE EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS. " There's... | |
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