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" Scotland — a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent — adventurous and persevering — winging her eagle flight against the blaze of... "
Recollections of Curran, and Some of His Contemporaries - Page 183
by Charles Phillips - 1822 - 403 pages
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The Following Information was Filed by His Majesty's Attorney General ...

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1793 - 162 pages
...ardent, adventurous and perfevering ; winning her eagle flight againft the blaze of every fcience, with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires; crowned as fhe is with the fpoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every mufe ; from the deep and fcrutinizing...
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Forensic Eloquence: Sketches of Trials in Ireland for High Treason, Etc ...

John Philpot Curran - 1804 - 408 pages
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing that (ever tires , crowned as she is with the spoils of every Art, and decked with the wreath of every Muse...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...muse; from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetick morality of her Burns. Ho«', from...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...muse; from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetick morality of her Burns. How, from...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 368 pages
...and the sturdy credulity of -pampered wealth; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; Dinging her eagle flight against the blaze o•f every science,...eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires ; crown* ed as she is with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from...
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The History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 2

Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 552 pages
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth; cool and ardent; adventurous and persevering, winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...muse, from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic morality of her Burns — how, from...
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The History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 2

Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 556 pages
...and ardent >; adfent persevering, winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, »dth an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires ; crowned as • she is with the"spoite of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep -arid Scrutinizing...
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The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant ...

Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...and. the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; Cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science;...Muse, from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her Homes, to the sweet O and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic morality of her Burnv—how from...
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The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American ...

Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pages
...cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of eveiy science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing...researches of her Humes, to the sweet and simple, but no less sublime and pathetic mo M2 rality of her Burns.* How from the bosom of a country like that,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...consecrated a Greek telraslic, to the commemoration of the multifarious talents of the departed poet, crowned with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse. In the summer of this year, he accompanied Mr and Mrs Thrale in a tour through North Wales, ." a new...
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