 | John Trumbull - United States - 1856 - 208 pages
...rear below : His bent knee fail'd,f and void of strength Stretch'd on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to tempests...all men know 'em, If slightly versed in epic poem. * This thought is taken from Juvenal, Satire 15. f Genua labant incidit ictus, Ingens ad terram duplicato... | |
 | John Trumbull - United States - 1856 - 200 pages
...his rear below: His bent knee fail'd,f and void of strength Stretch'd on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to tempests...flow'r the plow to dust consigns, And more things else—but all men know 'em, If slightly versed in epic poem. * This thought is taken from Juvenal,... | |
 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...rear below ; ) His bent knees fail'd, and void of strength Stretch'd on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to tempests...fall'na prey, Or mountain sunk with all his pines, Or fiow'r the plough to dust consigns, And more things else — but all men know 'em, If slightly vers'd... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...fail'd,* and void of strength Stretch' d on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, lie lay, Or tower to tempests fall'na prey, Or mountain...rises; And with loud shouts and joyful soul, Conduct hirn prisoner to the pole. When now the mob in lucky hour Had got their en'mies in their power, They... | |
 | Wayne E. Burton - Wit and humor - 1867 - 674 pages
...LIBEETY POLE. His bent knees fail'd, and void of strength Stretch'd on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to tempests...Or mountain sunk with all his pines, Or flow'r the plough to dust consigns, And more things else — but all men know 'em, If slightly vers'd in epic... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...his rear below: His bent knee fail'd, and void of strength Stretch'd on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to tempests...Or mountain sunk with all his pines, Or flow'r the plough to dust consigns, And more things else—but all men know 'em, If slightly versed in epic poem.... | |
 | William B. Cairns - American literature - 1909 - 528 pages
...his rear below : His bent knee fail'd, and void of strength Stretch'd on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to tempests...and joyful soul Conduct him prisoner to the pole. TIMOTHY DWIGHT [Timothy Dwight, another of the more famous "Hartford Wits," was the grandson of Jonathan... | |
 | William B. Cairns - American literature - 1909 - 520 pages
...Stretch'd on the ground hi? manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to tempests falPn a prey, Or mountain sunk with all his pines, Or flow'r...and joyful soul Conduct him prisoner to the pole. TIMOTHY DWIGHT [Timothy Dwight, another of the more famous "Hartford Wits," was the grandson of Jonathan... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 452 pages
...JOHN TRUMBULL " His bent knee fail'd, and void of strength, Stretch'd on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak, o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to...Or mountain sunk with all his pines, Or flow'r the plough to dust consigns, And more things else — but all men know 'em, If slightly versed in epic... | |
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d on the ground his manly length. Like ancient oak o'erturn'd, he lay, Or tower to tempests fall'na prey, Or mountain sunk with all his pines, Or flow'r the plow to dust consigns, And more things else — but all men know 'em, If slightly versed in epic... 
