 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1878 - 312 pages
...whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." On going out of the Senate, one of the members complimented Mr. Webster upon this, saying that he was... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 780 pages
...military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Perhaps a mere rhetorician might consider superfluous the word " whole," as applied to " globe," and... | |
 | George Shea - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 516 pages
...posts ; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."2 We are thinking, of course, of Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the founders of the British... | |
 | Arthur Vergil Babbs - Tithes - 1912 - 264 pages
...glorious day of the realization of prophecy, " the morning drum-beat of the Church will encircle the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs " of King Jesus. Each tap of the resounding drum shall summons new hosts of His conquering clans. Thus far... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Novelists, English - 1912 - 342 pages
...whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." After being thrilled by this uplifting burst of eloquence, it is a break-neck fall to Dickens's shrewd... | |
 | Clark Mills Brink - Oratory - 1913 - 448 pages
...posts, whose morning. drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. In the music of this passage, with its irregular succession of iambic and anapaestic feet, we have... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - Oratory - 1913 - 446 pages
...surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." This example is cited to show that what are called loose sentences are necessary to beauty of expression... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Education - 1913 - 362 pages
...posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England/' The earth is still circled with these, but now also with sweeter strains—those rising from the common... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1913 - 456 pages
...military posts; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.—Webster 3. In some far-away and yet undreamt-of hour, I can even imagine that England may... | |
 | Adam Shortt, Sir Arthur George Doughty - Canada - 1914 - 406 pages
...the British ' morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England ' is largely due to the explorations of James Cook on his three remarkable voyages. The Admiralty equipped... | |
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Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the... 
