 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 σελίδες
...the former we have examples in all sudden and forcible or emphatic exclamations, as in the following: "Gods! can a Roman senate long debate which of the two to choose, slavery or death?" Of the latter, (in which from the absence of emotion the force of utterance is of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 σελίδες
...your thoughts; are they still To hold it out, anäjight it to the last? Or, are your hcartssuaducd at length, and wrought, By time and ill success, to a submission ? Sempronious — speak. Anecdote. How to price icood Fortune. In the year preceding the French revolution,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 418 σελίδες
...your thoughts; are they still Го hold it out. tind fight it to the last? Or. are your hearts subdued at length, and wrought, By time and ill success, to a submission ? Sempronious — speak. Anecdote. How to prize %ood Fortune. In the year preceding the French revolution,... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 σελίδες
...thoughts ; are they still fixed To hold it out and fight it to the last ? Or are your hearts subdued at length, and wrought, By time and ill success, to a submission ? Sempronius, speak. live than that of their cure, and the emancipation of my country from the superinhuman oppression under... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1848 - 854 σελίδες
...silken balloon of " fine writing," or works himself up to an awful oratorical rage in declaiming " Gods! can a Roman Senate long debate which of the two to choose, slavery or death!" or that equally as novel passage, "Romans! countrymen and lovers! hear me, for my... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 444 σελίδες
...thoughts : are they still fix'd To hold it out and fight it to the last ? Or are your hearts subdued at length, and wrought By time and ill success to a submission ? Sempronius, speak. Sempronius. My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 σελίδες
...pronounce your thoughts ; are they still fix'd To hold it out and fight it to the last? Or are your hearts subdu'd at length, and wrought, By time and ill success, to a submission ? Cato. XXXIX. — EXHORTING. BUT wherefore do you droop? Why look you sad ? Be great in act as you... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 σελίδες
...force. As when Sempronius, animated with Roman courage, urges the Senate to defend their liberties : Gods ! can a Roman Senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? No ! let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 σελίδες
...throne Of beauty ruled the earth ! And we are Romans ! MISS MITFOR» SPEECH OFSEMPRONIUS FOR WAR. Mr voice is still for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose — slavery or death ? No ; let us rise at once, gird on our swords, A.nd, at the head of our remaining... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 394 σελίδες
...the former we have examples in all sudden and forcible or emphatic exclamations, as in the following: "Gods! can a Roman senate long debate which of the two to choose, slavery or death?" Of the latter, (in which from the absence of emotion the force of utterance is of... | |
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My voice is still for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? No ; let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his... 
