 ... would 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,...  The Monthly Review - Страница 3761826Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 512 страници
...quickly it would put forth its scattered " elements of strength, and awaken its dormant " thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent " machines, when...But, God forbid that " that occasion should arise." England, then, was declared by her Foreign Minister to be possessed of the power of going to war, should... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 страници
...beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines, when springing from inaction into a display of its might—such is England herself, while, apparently passive and motionless, she silently concentrates... | |
 | William Wallace - 1832 - 410 страници
...beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion." The year 1824 opened still more auspiciously than the preceding year. Manufacturing industry and commerce... | |
 | 1833 - 896 страници
...strength, and awaken its dormant thunder." Such is one of those magnificent machines, when spreading from inaction ; into a display of its might. Such...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. And such, I would add, are the churches and col| leges of England ; in which,— though they have been... | |
 | 1835 - 436 страници
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might — snch is England herself, «hile apparrcntly passive and motionless she silently concentratca the... | |
 | George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - 452 страници
...beauty and its bravely, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when...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 страници
...; collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such is one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction...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 страници
...bravery; collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such is one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction...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,... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1840 - 684 страници
...beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when...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... | |
 | 1840 - 594 страници
...bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction...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... | |
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