 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 Seiten
...stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the...likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 Seiten
...these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows with perfect stillness ; how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the...likeness of an animated thing', instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ; how quickly it would put forth... | |
 | Washington Wilks - 1852 - 384 Seiten
...those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated being, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ;... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1853 - 784 Seiten
...masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it Were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton - 1855 - 164 Seiten
...those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the...likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly would it put... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 520 Seiten
...those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated being, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ;... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 520 Seiten
...those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated being, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ;... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1856 - 772 Seiten
...masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life andmotion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 Seiten
...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly would it put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 Seiten
...those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the...likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put... | |
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You well know, Gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness ; how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion... 
