 Now the broad shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round ; In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.  Household Guest - Page 5631889Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 pages
...the beautiful description of the ornamental border of the buckler of Achilles : — " Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned "With his last...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.'' THE COMPROMISE MEASURES. Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 11th of July,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1860 - 570 pages
...the beautiful description ,of the ornamental border of the buckler of Achilles : — " Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...ocean round ; In living silver seemed the waves to mil, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole." NOT E. Page 358. Letter from Mr. Webster to... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...the beautiful description of the ornamental edging of the buckler of Achilles, — " Now the brood shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean ronnd : In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole."... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1863 - 642 pages
...edging of the buckler of Achilles — " Now the broad shield complete the artist crowned, With hid last hand, and poured the ocean round ; : In living...seemed the waves to roll. And beat the buckler's verge, ana bound tho whole," Mr. Сльноия. I rise to correct what I conceive to be an error of the distinguished... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - Slavery - 1866 - 672 pages
...scale the beautiful description of the ornamental border of the buckler of Achilles: " ' Now, the broad shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand,...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.' " In bringing to notice Mr. Webster's very pointed allusion to the Nashville Convention, I am reminded... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - 1867 - 40 pages
...scale the splendid description of the ornamental edging of the buckler of Achilles: " Now the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole," There may be other countries where more of physical beauty and variety charms the eye than in America... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...the beautiful description of the ornamental edging of the bucklers of Achilles — " Now the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole," PAUL REVERE'S RIDE.— HW LONGFELLOW. LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride... | |
 | 1869 - 662 pages
...thing to be superadded, like the ocean in the shield of Achilles, of which we read,— " And now the shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand,...And beat the buckler's verge and bound the whole." But it is not so with beauty ; rather as a distinguished writer has said in a work on Homiletics, "... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - Elocution - 1870 - 204 pages
...scale, the beautiful description of the ornamental edging of the buckler of Achilles — " Now the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole." THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. WC BRYANT. This piece should be recited in a rather low tone, in a sweet,... | |
 | Homerus - 1870 - 552 pages
...low, their pliant limbs they bend, And general songs the sprightly revel end. 7°° Thus the broad shield complete the artist crowned With his last hand,...And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole. This done, whate'er a warrior's use requires, 7°5 He forged ; the cuirass that outshone the fires,... | |
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