| Robert Rantoul - 1852 - 56 lehte
...and obstinately just. Like Teneriffe, or Atlas, unremoved, The stubborn temper of his spirit proved. Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned would view the mighty wreck, And stand secure amid a falling world. But it... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 lehte
...and vexcs it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move ; Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it...mighty crack,* And stand secure amidst a falling world. a Crack. Plainly used here for the sake of the rhyme ; for the poet knew very well that the word was... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 560 lehte
...ADP1SON. C. No. 441. SATURDAY, JULY 26. Sifractus illabatus orbis, Impavidumferient ruinoe, Hem. OD. Should the whole frame of nature round him break,...would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a fallen world. ANON. MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched being: he is... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 554 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move, Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. 1 Should the whole frame of nature round him break. In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd,... | |
| 1853 - 604 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move, Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. 1 Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of bis soul can move ; Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it...mighty crack,* And stand secure amidst a falling world. • Crack. Plainly used here for the Bake of the rhyme; for the poet knew very well that the word was... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move ; Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it...confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack,a And stand secure amidst a falling world. a Crack. Plainly used here for the sake of the rhyme... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 596 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move ; Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it...frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, 1 But HOWSOE'BR.] A word, which nobody would now use In verse, and not many in good prose.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 lehte
...ruinte." [Or rather to Addison's version — " Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In rain and confusion hurl'd, He unconcern'd would hear the...crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world."] 12 [In first edit,— " Scribblers, like spiders, break one cobweb through, Still spin," &c. There... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 lehte
...Horace,— "Sifractus illabatur orbis, . Impavidum ferient ruinse." - [Or rather to Addison's version— " Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, . In ruin and confusion huiTd, He unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world."] 12 [In... | |
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