 | John Nichols - English literature - 1782 - 502 pages
...bition fhall beat her great boughs and branches ' one againft another ; her leaves lhall fall off; her c limbs wither, and a rabble of barbarous nations ' enter the field and cut her down.' " What ftrength 44 of colouring ! What grace, what noblenefs of ex" preflion ! With what a majefty... | |
 | John Nichols - Painters - 1785 - 776 pages
...florms of am' bition fliall beat her great boughs and branches ' one again ft another ; her leaves fhall fall off; her * limbs wither, and a rabble of barbarous nations ' enter the field and cut her down.' " What ftrcngth * BtrtnJ!aitt ia caCrato engaged by Hawkl'm the operas. « Of «' of colouring ! What... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1789 - 304 pages
...Storms of Ambition fhall beat " her great Boughs and Branches one againft another; her Leaves foalt " fall off, her Limbs wither, and a Rabble of barbarous Nations enter " the Field, and cut her down.'' What Strength of Colouring! What Grace, what Noblenefs of Exprefiion I With what a Majcfty does lie... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1803 - 512 pages
...the ftorms of ambition fhall beat her great boughs and branches one againft another, her leaves fhall fall off, her limbs wither, and a rabble of barbarous nations enter the field, and cut her down." Hiftory of the World, p. 668. . ordinaordination was broken, and the city was torn by innumerable factions... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1806 - 600 pages
...florins of ambition (hull beat her great boughs and branches one againft another, her leaves fliall fall off, her limbs wither, and a. rabble of barbarous nations enter the field, and cut her dowu." Hiftory of th« World, p. 66'8, ordination was broken, and the city was torn by innumerable... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...flourishing in the middle of the field ; having rooted up, or cut down, all that kept it from the eye and admiration of the world. But, after some continuance,...barbarous nations enter the field and cut her down." ****•* " It is death alone, that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and confident,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...flourishing in the middle of the field ; having rooted up, or cut down, all that kept it from the eye and admiration of the world. But, after some continuance,...barbarous nations enter the field and cut her down." **••** " It is death alone, that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and... | |
 | Nathaniel Hooke - Rome - 1830 - 656 pages
...the middle of the field, having rooted up or cut down all that kept it from the eyes and admintion of the world. But after some continuance, it shall...barbarous nations enter the field, and cut her down." Sir W. li. in Jlne. Year of upon all those of their allies whose behaviour had dis|. f~\ *| M 1 5it5.... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 718 pages
...left it (the Roman empire) flourishing in the middle of the field, having rooted up or cut down nil that kept it from the eyes and admiration of the world....barbarous nations enter the field and cut her down." Raleigh's History, ad finem. Notwithstanding the praise that has been bestowed on this sentence, it... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 492 pages
...at this time, almost at the highest. We have left it flourishing in the middle of the field,having rooted up or cut down all that kept it from the eyes...barbarous nations enter the field and cut her down." The foregoing observations and extracts may serve to furnish a general conception of the tenor and... | |
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We have left it flourishing in the middle of the field, having rooted up or cut down all that kept it from the eyes and admiration of the world ; but, after some continuance, it shall begin to lose the beauty it had ; the storms of ambition shall beat... 
