 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 460 pages
...declivities of the mountains." This was the " menacing " meteor which blackened all the horizon until it sud" denly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents "upon the plains of the Carnatic."* Had Baillie and Munro at once combined their forces, as they might and should, it seems probable, from... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1854 - 456 pages
...declivities of the mountains." This was the " menacing " meteor which blackened all the horizon until it sud" denly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents " upon the plains of the Carnatic." * At the approach of Hyder's army, the frontier-posts, held by Sepoys, surrendered wiih but slight... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 628 pages
...the mountains." This was the " menacing " meteor which blackened all the horizon until it " suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of " its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic." * At the approach of Hyder's army, the frontier, posts, held by Sepoys, surrendered with but slight... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 pages
...Carnatic. | Then ensued a scene of wo1 ; | the Me of which no eye had seen, | nor heart conceived1, | and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war, before known, or heard1 of, were mer'cy to that new havoc. | A storm of universal fire', blasted every field1, I consumed... | |
 | DAVID O.. ALLEN, D. D. - 1856 - 636 pages
...were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst and poured down the whole of its contents upon...heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately describe. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy compared with this new havoc.... | |
 | David Oliver Allen - 1856 - 646 pages
...were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst and poured down the whole of its contents upon...heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately describe. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy compared with this new havoc.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...poured down the whole of its contents on the garrets of Grub Street. Then issued a scene of (ludicrous) woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived,...no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of literary war before known or heard of — (MacFlecknoe,the Rehearsal, &c.) — were mercy to the new... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...poured down the whole of its contents on the garrets of Grub Street. Then issued a scene of (ludicrous) woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived,...no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of literary war before known or heard of — (MacFlecknoe, the Kehearsal, &c.) — were mercy to the new... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon...no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of woe before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all the horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon...universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, and destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part... | |
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Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. 
