...hursts out into the following rhapsody:—" The thoughts naturally led to the contemplation of future possibilities. I beheld a second Rome, rising from...superlative in arms and in arts, looking down with proud superiorily upon the barbarous nations of the northern hemisphere." This pretty dream was not realized....

...will kucp out the rain, Erin go pantaloons without holes in them!" led to the contemplation of future possibilities. I beheld a second Rome rising from...giving laws to the world, and superlative in arms and arts, looking down with fond superiority upon the barbarous nations of the Northern hemisphere ; thus...

...of a rhetorical rhapsody on the probable future of Port Phillip : ' I beheld a second Rome arising from a coalition of banditti. I beheld it giving laws to the world, and, superlative in laws and in arts, looking down with proud superiority upon the barbarous nations of the northern hemisphere....