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" ... abode : but she is pursued even here, and threatened with destruction. The inundation of lawless power, after .covering the whole earth, threatens to follow us here ; and we are most exactly, most critically placed, in the only aperture where it can... "
Greece, a poem. [Followed by] Cassandra [a poem]. - Page 276
by William Haygarth - 1814
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...always chose for her favourite abode; but she is pursued even here, and threatened with destruction! The inundation of lawless Power, after covering the...critically placed in the only aperture where it can be successfully repelled — in the Thermopylae of the world! As far as the interests of freedom are concerned...
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The Works of the Rev. Robert Hall, Volume 1

Robert Hall - 1833 - 506 pages
...always chose for her favourite abode : but she is pursued even here, arid threatened with destruction. The inundation of lawless power, after covering the...to follow us here ; and we are most exactly, most criticajly placed in the only aperture where it can be successfully repelled in the Thermopylae of...
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The Works of Robert Hall, A.M.: With a Brief Memoir of His Life, Volume 1

Robert Hall - 1834 - 536 pages
...always chose for her favourite abode : but she is pursued even here, and threatened with destruction. The inundation of lawless power, after covering the...critically placed, in the only aperture where it can be successfully repelled, in the Thermopylae of the universe. As far as the interests of freedom are concerned,...
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The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pages
...always chose for her favorite abode : but she is pursued even here, and threatened with destruction. The inundation of lawless power, after covering the...critically placed in the only aperture where it can be successfully repelled, — in the Thermopylae of the universe ! Go then, ye defenders of your country,...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...constitution. But the inundation of lawless power, after covering the rest of Europe, threatens England ; and we are most exactly, most critically placed in the only aperture where it can be successfully repelled, in the Thermopylte of the universe. As far as the interests of freedom are concerned,...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...— •' But the inundation of lawless power, after covering the rest of Europe, threatens England ; and we are most exactly, most critically placed in the only aperture, where it can be most successfully repelled, in the Thermopylae of the universe." This is a historical allusion. s In...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...says :— " But the inundation of lawless power, after covering the rest of Europe, threatens England; and we are most exactly, most critically placed in the only aperture, where it can be most successfully re-pelled, in the Thermopylae of the universe." This is a historical allusion. •...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...is no longer a moment tor hesitation; our foes are fast, gathering their mighty legions around us, and we are most exactly, most critically placed in the only aperture which can oppose a resistance—in the Thermopylae of the universe." The position of authors without...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd

Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1842 - 412 pages
...always chose for her favourite abode: but she is pursued even here, and threatened with destruction. The inundation of lawless power, after covering the...critically placed in the only aperture where it can be successfully repelled, in the Thermopylae ol the universe. As far as the interests of freedom are concerned,...
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The United States Speaker, a Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 pages
...always chose for her favorite abode : but she is pursued even here, and threatened with destruction. The inundation of lawless power, after covering the...critically placed in the only aperture where it can be successfully repelled, — in the Thermopylae of the universe ! Go then, ye defenders of your country,...
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