Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast... The Tatler - Page 3251803Full view - About this book
| British essayists - 1803 - 342 pages
...:is of Lste o'er pale Biitannia pist, ' C 1m and serene he drives the furious blast ; ' And, ple^s'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, ' Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm J." The whole poem is so exquisitely noble and poetic, that I think it an honour to our nation and... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as...Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. The war's whole art each private soldier knows, And with a gen'ral's love of conquest glows; Proudly he... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...when, in a whirlwind, he comes to Moreen.] ADDISOK'S Campaign. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land ; (Such...Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. The simile... | |
| James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 pages
...his buckler abroad ; as, aloft, it hung on Calm and s«rene he drives the furious blast, And pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. 10 High wave their arms, as rushy fields beneath autumnal winds.] And in the preceding paragraph, "... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...his buckler abroad ; as, alofr, it hung on Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. 10 High wave their arms, as rushy fields beneath autumnal triarfs'.] And in the preceding paragraph,... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as...Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. The first ONSET of a BATTLE, ILLUSTRATED BY A NOBLE COMPARISON. (POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD.} FIJC'D at his post... | |
| John Aikin - 1806 - 346 pages
...Marlborough at the battle of Blenheim is compared, has been much admired : So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as...perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. An objection has been made against this simile, that it too nearly resembles the primary object ; for... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...comparaison si souvent citée dans les auteurs classiques : So when an angel, by divine command , ^Vith rising tempests shakes a guilty land , Such as of...and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleas'd the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the stonn. * ADDIJON , the campaign.... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...of late o'er pale Britannia past , Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ? And , pleas'd the Almighty's orders to perform , Rides in the whirlwind , and directs the storm. * ADDISON, thé campaign. * Ainsi , quand un ange , par l'ordre divin , suscitant les tempêtes, ébranle... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 348 pages
...guilty Iand4 Such as of late o er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast 5 And, pleas'd th* Almighty's orders to perform, Rides...I think it an honour to. our nation and language. * By Addison, published in, 1704. f The author alludes here to the terrible tempests which happened... | |
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