 That power that kindly spreads The clouds, a signal of impending showers, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade, Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. " A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it...  Waverley Novels - Side 27av Walter Scott - 1836Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Samuel Johnson - 1785 - 222 sider
...kindly fpreads The clouds, a fignal of impending fliow'rs, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the fliade, Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. ( 45 ) DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded laws, i A faftious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 sider
...kindly fpreads The clouds, a fignal of impending fhow'rs, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the fhade, Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 sider
...kindly fpreads The clouds, a fignal of impending fliow'rs, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the {hade, Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 sider
...kindly fpreads The clouds, a fignal of impending fliow'rs, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the fliade, Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it. . A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 sider
...fpreads " The clouds, a fignal of impending fhowers, " To warn the wand'ring linnet to the fhade, " Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece, " And not one prodigy foretold our fate." DEMETRIUS. u A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it; " A feeble government, eluded laws, " A factious populace,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 sider
...fpreads " The clouds, a fignal of impending fhowers, " To warn the wand'ring linnet to the fhade, " Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece, " And not one prodigy foretold our fate." DEMETRITTS. " A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold it ; " A feeble government, eluded laws, " A factious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 sider
...fpreads , . . The clouds, a fignal of impending fhow'rs, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the fhade, Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thoufand horrid prodigies foretold lit. ' A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 436 sider
...race! so oft besieg'd in vain, With false security beheld invasion. Why should they fear ?— That Power that kindly spreads The clouds, a signal of impending showers, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade, Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold... | |
 | 1797 - 448 sider
...race ! so oft besieg'd in vain, With false security beheld invasion. Why should they fear 2 — That Power that kindly spreads The clouds, a signal of impending showers, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade, Bsheld, without concern, expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 sider
...passage is worked up in the tragedy itself, as follows : LEONTIUS. " That power that kindly spreads " Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece, " And not...DEMETRIUS. " A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it ; '' A feeble government, eluded laws, " A factious populace, luxurious nobles, " And all the maladies... | |
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