 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 412 sayfa
...abuses his eminent advantages ; abuses the grandeur and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and he be laid...murmur at his fate? — " why cumbereth he the ground ?" A LITERARY ANTIQUARY. Printed bookes he contemnes, as a novelty of this latter age ; but a manuscript... | |
 | 1822 - 446 sayfa
...abuses his eminent advantages ; abuses the grandeur and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and he be laid...murmur at his fate — " why cumbereth he the ground." Vol. I. p. 139—144. In the paper on the superstitions peculiar to St. Mark's Eve, the author speaks... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 406 sayfa
...abuses his eminent advantages ; abuses the grandeur and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and he be laid...oppressive hand of power, who would murmur at his fate T — " why cumbereth he the ground ?" A LITERARY ANTIQUARY. Printed bookes he contemnes, as a novelty... | |
 | 1822 - 452 sayfa
...abuses his eminent advantages ; abuses the grandeur and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and he be laid...he be borne down by the oppressive hand of power, wh» would murmur at his fate — " why curabereth he the ground." Vol. I. p. 139—144. In the paper... | |
 | 1822 - 524 sayfa
...grandenr and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and hi, be laid prostrate by the storm, who would mourn over...hand of power, who would murmur at his fate ? " Why cuntbereth he the ground?" — Vol. I. pp. 161 — 165. All this is certainly very clever. It is praise... | |
 | 1822 - 520 sayfa
...abuses his eminent advantages ; abuse* the grandeur and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and he be laid prostrate by the storm, wliii would mourn over his fall ? Should he be borne down by the oppressive hand of power, who would... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sayfa
...his eminent -advantages ; — abuses the grandeur and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and he be laid...fall ? — Should he be borne down by the oppressive hand>of power, who would murmur at his fate ? — « Why cumbereth he the ground?" S98 THE AMERICAN... | |
 | 1832 - 440 sayfa
...spite of his disgrace; and if all the world .besides cast him off, she will be all the world to him. STUDY OF NATURE. If we look, says Sir Humphrey Davy,...human works, such as the columns of Palmyra, broken in t^ie midst of the desert ; the temples of Pacstum, beautiful in the decay of twenty centuries; or the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 276 sayfa
...abuses his eminent advantages; abuses the grandeur and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and he be laid...murmur at his fate ?—" Why cumbereth he the ground ?" A LITERARY ANTIQUARY. Printed bookes he contemnes, as a novelty of this latter age; but a manuscript... | |
 | 1835 - 538 sayfa
...abuses his eminent advantages ; — abuses the grandeur and prosperity which he has drawn from the bosom of his country. Should tempests arise, and he be laid...at his fate ? — " Why cumbereth he the ground?" WASHINGTON IKVING. IT is the general misfortune not to be content with what we have ; not to see or... | |
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... the defenceless ; warding off from them the peltings of the storm, or the scorching rays of arbitrary power. He who is this, is an ornament and a blessing to his native land. He who is otherwise, abuses his eminent advantages; abuses the grandeur... 
