 | Thucydides - Greece - 1848 - 490 pages
...when it would have been so much more to the purpose to allude to his deplorable death, " Deserted, at his utmost need, " By those his former bounty fed, " On the bare earth exposed he lies, " Without a friend to close his eyes." It seems to me therefore clear from this, that the Pythian games... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...Fallen ! fallen ! fallen! fallen ! Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood ! Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed,...exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes ! With downcast look the joyless victor sat, Revolving, in his alter'd soul, The various turns of fate... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'riog in his blood; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed...exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of Chance... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...voice here, as in the strain of Timotheus, from heroic to pathetic ; as rapid too. Reproach. Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed,...exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes ! Reflection. With downcast look the joyless victor sate, Revolving, in his alter'd soul, The various... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...from his high estate, And weltering in his blood ! Reproach. Deserted at his utmost need By those liis former bounty fed, On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes ! R -Unction. With downcast look the joyless victor sate, Revolving, in his alter'd soul, The various... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...FalTn ! fall'n 1 fall'n 1 fall'n ! Fall'n from his high estate, And weltering in his blood 1 Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed,...exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes 1 With downcast look the joyless victor sat, Revolving, in his alter'd soul, The various turns of fate... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...Fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, Fall'n from his high estate, And.welt'ring in his blood : Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes With downcast look the joyless victor sat, Revolving,... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...Fallen! fallen! fallen! fallen 1 Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood ! Deserted in his utmost need By those his former bounty fed, On...exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes ! With downcast looks the joyless yictor sat, Revolving, in his altered soul, The various turns of... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1851 - 400 pages
...sense and feeling go hand in hand, and are aided by rests, 1. Prosodial scanning by feet — IAMBICS. On the | bare earth | exposed | he lies, | With not | a friend | to close | his eyes. | A mode of scanning, if adhered to in the reading, which would utterly destroy the sense and power... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...Fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, Fall'n from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood : Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth expoa'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast look the joyless victor sate, Revolving... | |
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Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse ; He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen... 
