| Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1831 - 354 lehte
...vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move ; 10 Nor 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 hurFd, 15 He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Such... | |
| Hugh Moore - 1831 - 528 lehte
...— " If this world's wreck should fall about him, the ruins would not strike him with dread." » " Should the whole frame of nature round him break In...unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand serene amidst a falling world.'* ANON. This effect of a consciousness of strict and uncompromising... | |
| James Thacher - 1832 - 460 lehte
...which human nature is exposed, and of him who is possessed by them, the poet with propriety says, " Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. ' The... | |
| James Thacher - 1835 - 434 lehte
...which human nature is exposed, and of him who is possessed by them, the poet with, propriety says, " Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled1, He. unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world." 16*... | |
| James Thacher - 1835 - 418 lehte
...says, "Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world." 16* The evening was concluded by singing a song composed by Mr. Alexander Scammel.* 1771, December... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 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...mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Anm. THERE is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 lehte
...gulf, and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul remove: 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 liurl'd. He. unconcern'd, would hear this mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.' The... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 lehte
...illabatur orbis ' and the next line will be a sufficient sample; its main fault is undue expansion : — ' Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.' Swift could not... | |
| William Shaw Russell - 1846 - 450 lehte
...which human nature is exposed, and of him who is possessed by them, the poet with propriety says, ' Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.' ' The... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 lehte
...Ode iii. b. 3. Should the whole frame of Nature round them 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... | |
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