 Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon .the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience...  The Speeches...delivered at the Bar, and on Various Public Occasions in ... - Page 200by Charles Phillips - 1817 - 213 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...grazing upon the sides of it." SECTlON llL-MlSCELLANEOUS. I— CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON. (PHILLIPS.) HE is fallen ! We may now pause before that splendid...Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive;... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...Bankruptcy, and in 1846 a Commissioner of Insolvent Debtors, which office he held until his death."] HE is fallen ! We may now pause before that splendid prodigy, which towered amongst us lie some ancient rum, whose frown terrified the glance its magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. HE is fallen I We may now pause before that splendid prodigy, which towered among us like some ancient ruin, whose frown terrified the...Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent, and decisive... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - Recitations - 1871 - 410 pages
...on my face, My soul would go to Washington's, and not to Arnold's place ! " NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. HE is fallen ! We may now pause before that splendid prodigy, which towered among us like some ancient ruin, whose frown terrified the glance its magnificence attracted. Grand,... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...together, and none shall quench them." HAS. PHILLIPS ON THE CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. (39) HE is FALLEN ! We may now pause before that splendid...Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 pages
...authors of our calamities the punishment they deserve. CBurk «CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. v HE is fallen ! We may now pause before that splendid...attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the^throne a sceptered hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent,... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...! We raay now pause before that splendi ' prodigy, \rhich towered amongst us like some ancient rum, whose frown terrified the glance its magnificence...Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his owr. originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1874 - 424 pages
...To thee, whose temple is all space, LESSON CVIII. CHARACTER OF BOSAPABTZ. 1. HE is fallen ! We niay now pause before that splendid prodigy, which towered...frown terrified the glance its magnificence attracted. GranJ, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his... | |
 | Hugh Aitken Dow - Private schools - 1876 - 210 pages
...opening sentences of Phillips' oration on the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, the cry went round, ' He is fallen! We may now pause before that splendid prodigy,...terrified the glance its magnificence attracted.' The change in Andrew's behaviour from that time hence was very marked. If not made sweet, his former... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...unsigned, The steel is in thy heart ! I speak no more ! J. Sheridan Ktiowlet. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. HE is fallen ! We may now pause before that splendid prodigy, which towered among us like some ancient ruin, whose frown terrified the glance its magnificence attracted. Grand,... | |
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