 Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast...  The British Essayists: Tatler - Page 3111823Full view - About this book
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...of late o'er pale Britannia pass'd, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. ADDISON. [From " The Campaign."] (Slegn foritfen ma Country Cfjurr^-yarb. \ HE curfew tolls the knell... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene He drives the tiirious blast, And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm." Lord Grodolphin, it is said*, was so delighted with this not very reverent simile, that he immediately... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...as of late o'er pale Britannia passed, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. FROM TRAGEDY OF CATO. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 660 pages
...as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm." " The Lord Treasurer Godolphin, ' who,' says Tickell, • was a fine judge of poetry,' had a sight of this... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...as of late o'er pale Britannia pass'd, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. "ALL IN THE DOWNS." RV JOHN GAY. [JoHN GAY was born at Barnstaple, in Devonshire, in i68S, and, after... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...as of late o'er pale Britannia pass'd, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. "ALL IN THE DOWNS." BV JOHN GAY. [JOHN GAY was born at Barnstaple, in Devonshire, in 1688, and, after... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...as of late o'er pale Britannia pass'd, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. "ALL IN THE DOWNS." IiV JOHN GAY. [JOHN GAY was born at Barnstaple, in Devonshire, in 1688, and, after... | |
 | Richard C. AUSTIN - 1864 - 176 pages
...(Such as of late o'er pale Britannia pass'd,) Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. Addison. Alexander the Great, at one period of his life, was of so tender and humane a disposition,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 pages
...as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. But see the haughty household troops advance ! The dread of Europe, and the pride of France. The war's... | |
 | David Thomas - 1865 - 754 pages
...describing the work of an angel in this direction, says— " Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleas'd the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm." II. THE LEADING FEATURES OF DlVINE GOVERNMENT. The various machinery which is here laid bare to us,... | |
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