 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...amassing a fortune, in buying and seliing his fellow-men! " Is there not some chosen curse, " Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, " Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, " Who gains his fortune from the blood of souls :" all be swept off, and the pure, simple, unadulterated... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? Por. Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness,... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 954 pages
...horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man. Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? Por. Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness, And mix'd... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Artists - 1805 - 422 pages
...in this sense it is often used by the poets. O, Portius! is there not some chosen curae, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? ADDIION'I C.MO. And again in Milton : Should intermitted... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1808 - 220 pages
...hope these, and all like miscreants will find that there is — " '• some chosen curse " Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, " Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man " Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin." Gracious heaven '. when we consider the removal of... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood. [ter, Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse, , some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? Par. Believe me, Marcus, 't is an impious greatness and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood. Oh Portius, is there nut some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? PORTIUS. Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood. [ter, Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? For. Believe me, Marcus, 't is an impious greatness and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 pages
...His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS. Believe me, Marcus, 'tis an impious greatness,... | |
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Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon... 
