 ... necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion, how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage, how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements...  Modern Europe, a school history. To 1859 - Seite 392von John Lord - 1860 - 501 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1824 - 884 Seiten
...— how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quietly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery — collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1823 - 430 Seiten
...ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it w»uld put forth 327 NOVEMBER 8, 1823. all its beauty, and its bravery — collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. [Loud and continued thunders of apptaise.'J— Such, as is one of these... | |
 | 1824 - 890 Seiten
...— how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery — collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder." Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 Seiten
...— how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery — collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 Seiten
...— how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery — collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnifident machines when springing from inaction... | |
 | 1826 - 216 Seiten
...how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ; — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued , tish Ministry to the European Cabinets, through the... | |
 | 1826 - 568 Seiten
...how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ; — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued thuuders of applause.) Such as is one of these magnificent... | |
 | 1826 - 570 Seiten
...motion;—how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ;—how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued thunders of applause.) Such as is one of these magnificent... | |
 | Political primer - 1826 - 208 Seiten
...how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling ' plumage ;—how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued tish Ministry to the European Cabinets, through the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 Seiten
...bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such,' says he, * as is one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction into a display of its might, such is England herself while, apparently passive and motionless, she silently concentrates... | |
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