 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; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs...  A History of the Reign of Queen Anne - Page 305by John Hill Burton - 1880 - 338 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Authors, English - 1858 - 360 pages
...command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), .1 Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And,...pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides on the whirwind and directs the storm." Addison left off at a good moment. That simile was pronounced to be... | |
 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 pages
...battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command 287 With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed,1 Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...paths | of pleasing sense I ran. Again, Profuse of bliss | and pregnant with delight. After the 5th : So when an angel | by divine command, With rising tempests \ ¡shakes a guilty land. After the 6th : Speed the soft intercourse ¡ from soul to soul. Again, Then from his closing eyes... | |
 | Voltaire - 1859 - 428 pages
...his own. So, vcil'd in human shape, the poets feign The gods engaged in arms on Phrygia's plain ; " So when an angel by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land— Well pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, He rides the whirlwind, and directs the storm." The... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1859 - 496 pages
...dumb shall sing, || the lame | his crutch forego, And leap | exulting || like the bounding roe. 11. So when an angel || by divine command, With rising tempests || shakes a guilty land. 12. The sea is waveless | as a lake ingulf'd. . 'Mid sheltering hills, || without a ripple spreads..... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...CHURCH-YARD. Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by Divine command, With rising tempests...a guilty land, Such 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,... | |
 | Ford Madox Ford - Literary Collections - 1964 - 188 pages
...that in those days we were even moved by the remembrance of the great precursor of that sort of thing: So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests...and serene he drives the furious blast; And pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm! In a Division with which... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - Military art and science - 1860 - 466 pages
...Inspired repulsed battalions to engage. And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when some angel by Divine command With rising tempests shakes...a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed, Calm and unmoved he drives the furious blast. And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1896 - 876 pages
...its ' sublimity,' on the ground that it complimented ' the general and his queen at the same time.' So when an Angel by Divine Command With rising Tempests...Calm and serene he drives the furious Blast ; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's Orders to perform, Rides in the Whirl-wind, and directs the Storm." 2 Cf . Winter's... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - Literary Collections - 1995 - 508 pages
...Century, has been undistinguishingly admired. So when an Angel, by Divine Command, With rising Tempest shakes a guilty Land, Such as of late o'er pale BRITANNIA past, Calm and serene he guides the furious Blast, And pleas 'd th' ALMIGHTY'S Orders to perform, Rides in the Whirlwind and... | |
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