 | DAVID O.. ALLEN, D. D. - 1856 - 636 pages
...while on the declivities of the mountains. While the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all...heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately describe. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy compared with this new havoc.... | |
 | David Oliver Allen - India - 1856 - 642 pages
...while on the declivities of the mountains. While the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all...heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately describe. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy compared with this new havoc.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...hung for a while on the declivities of Richmond Hill ; and whilst the authors were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor which blackened all...suddenly burst and poured down the whole of its contents on the garrets of Grub Street. Then issued a scene of (ludicrous) woe, the like of which no eye had... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...hung for a while on the declivities of Bichmond Hill ; and whilst the authors were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor which blackened all...suddenly burst and poured down the whole of its contents on the garrets of Grub Street. Then issued a scene of (ludicrous) woe, the like of which no eye had... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...while on the declivities of the mountains. While the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all...no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of woe before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which darkened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.' Surely this is an immeasureable improvement, at least for the English House of Commons, on the ' like... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1858 - 190 pages
...the mountains." This was the " menacing " meteor which blackened all the horizon until it sud" denly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents " upon the plains of the Carnatic." * At the approach of Hyder's army, the frontier-posts, held by Sepoys, surrendered wiih but slight... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - India - 1858 - 198 pages
...the mountains." This was the " menacing " meteor which blackened all the horizon until it sud" denly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents " upon the plains of the Carnatic." * At the approach of Hyder's army, the frontier-posts, held by Sepoys, surrendered wiih but slight... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly ؊ N k Q ÉVt f#= zRFғ + $ nM h~ woo, the tiko of which no nye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 654 pages
...while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all...it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its • Burke—" Speech on the Nabob of Aroot's debts." 1773-1784.] HYDER DEFEATED BY COÛTE. 181 contents... | |
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... compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. 
