... accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war. Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But... John Milton - Page 70by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who having dared to receive...length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of allusion, reference is had to the division... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe *to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who, having dared to receive...be rewarded by her, in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of Allusion, reference is had to the division... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe 'to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who, having dared to receive...be rewarded by her, in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of Allusion, reference is had to the division... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...reptile^ She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive...produces — and that cure is freedom ! When a prisoner leaves his cell, he cannot bear the light of day : — he is unable to discriminate colors, or recognise... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...reptile. Shegrovels, she hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive...is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. freedom produces—and that cure is freedom! When a prisoner leaves his... | |
| Criticism - 1848 - 628 pages
...to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. " There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired...produces — and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner leaves his cell, he can not bear the light of day : — he is unable to discriminate colors, or to... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive...produces — and that cure is freedom! When a prisoner leaves his cell, he cannot bear the light of day ; — he is unable to discriminate colors or recognize... | |
| J. T. Headley - Marshals - 1846 - 402 pages
...reptile. She growls, she hisses, she stings ; but woe to those, who iti disgust, shall venture to crush her. And happy are those who, having dared to receive...by her in the time of her beauty and her glory."* I have made these remarks here, because they come more naturally under the sketch of Jourdan who derived... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1872 - 500 pages
...entscheiden wird. I, 40: Woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush Liberty ! And happy arc those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded...rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory. Ill, 304: He that shall put them together, will be very inclinable to think that it is a hundred to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush every generation : and that * Bui we have no such...In the first place, we have not full and accurate b« rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory. There is only one cure for the evils which... | |
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