 ... assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage, how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken...  Modern England - Página 125por Justin McCarty - 1888Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836 - 492 páginas
...bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. As is one of these magnificent machines, when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion : but God forbid that that occasion should arise ! After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a... | |
 | George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - 452 páginas
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction...silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adeqttite occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should ari«|e After a war sustained for nearly... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...beauty and bravery; collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such is one of those magnificent machines, when springing...silently concentrates the power to be put forth on adequate occasion." EXAMPLE 7. " O 'tis A goodly night! the cloudy wind, which blew From the Levant,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...beauty and bravery ; collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such is one of those magnificent machines, when springing...silently concentrates the power to be put forth on adequate occasion." EXAMPLE 7. " O 'tis A goodly night ! the cloudy wind, which blew From the Levant,... | |
 | 1840 - 594 páginas
...beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such is one of those magnificent machines when springing...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion." Thomas Campbell, in his Essay on English Poetry, (prefixed to his specimens,) makes use of the same... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1840 - 684 páginas
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion." 16. The comprehensiveness of Mr. Canning's views deserved the admiration they inspired, and the country... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 páginas
...springing from inaction into a display of its might—such in England herself; while apparently paslive and motionless, she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on adequate occasion." Example 15. The following is from the inaugural address of Professor Frisbie: "... | |
 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 páginas
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for near a quarter of a century... | |
 | 1872 - 862 páginas
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Bach as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion." Another striking example is his defence and eulogy of Pitt in a speech on the Silk Tri.de in 1*27.... | |
 | 1845 - 694 páginas
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.' Magnificent words ! and which henceforth in the annals of our country are destined to become associated... | |
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