 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1921 - 454 páginas
...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants fleeing from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age,... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 páginas
...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can accurately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm... | |
 | Joseph Wells - 1923 - 248 páginas
...always reminds me of a famous purple patch in Burke's speech on the ' Nabob of Arcot's Debts ' 1 : 'Then ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had seen. . . . All scenes of horror before known of, were mercy to that new havoc.' 1 iv. 260 ; ed. of 1808.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 550 páginas
...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. —...storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed everj''ouse, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages,... | |
 | Alexander Magnus Drummond - 1925 - 322 páginas
...sells/ and sends/ his sub/jects to/ the sham/bles of a foreign prince. (Chatham, Address to the Throne.) Then/ ensued/ a scene/ of woe/ the like/ of which/...conceived/ and which/ no tongue/ can ad/equately tell. (Burke, Nabob of Arcot's Debts.) Thus the law . . . goes up to the fountain of human agency, and arraigns/... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - 596 páginas
...mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance. . . . Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. ... A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves - 1927 - 264 páginas
...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic —...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell." Today this strong reliance upon the devices of rhetoric has all but disappeared. The contrast between... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 páginas
...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can accurately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1929 - 572 páginas
...mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance. . . . Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye...conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. ... A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The... | |
 | N. S. Ramaswami - 1984 - 628 páginas
...this menacing meteor which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic —...then ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye has seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. "A storm of universal fire blasted... | |
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Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the... 
