| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtues of his soul can move ; Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it...round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He uneoncern'd would hear the mighty crack. And stand secure amidst the falling world. ANON. THERE is... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 304 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move, Nor the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it...to fly. Should the whole frame of Nature round him In ruin and confusion hurl'd, [break, He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure... | |
| 1822 - 746 lehte
...the instant from the puflTof a pop-gun." " — Si fractus Ulabaiur orbis, Impavidum fericnt ruine." Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, Ne unconcern'd could riew the mighty wreck, And lUnd Kcure amidit a falling world 1 In the last hemistic... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 lehte
...again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! MOTES. " Should the whole frame of Nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurl'd, She unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling- world." On which lines... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 lehte
...flimsy lines ! " Should the whole frame of Nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurl'd, She unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world." On which lines he observes, in the Bathos, " Sometimes a single word (as crack) will vulgarize a poetical... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 762 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtues 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. ANON. THERE is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 286 lehte
...virtue of his soul can move; That flings the thunder from the sky, Not the red arm of angry Jove, . And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should...mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. The vanity of fear may be yet farther illustrated if we reflect, First, What we fear may not come to... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 924 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...and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd, would hear thr mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. sums. The story of a man who gwjw in il<... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 324 lehte
...and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtues 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 burl'd, He unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst the falling world. —... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 lehte
...SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1712. Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidmn ferient ruinae.— Hon. 3 Od. iii. 7. Should the whole frame of nature round him break,...mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. — ANON. MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched being. He is subject every... | |
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