 | R T. Linnington - 1837 - 274 oldal
...pronounce your thoughts : are they still fix'd To hold it out, and fight it to the last ? Or are your hearts subdu'd at length, and wrought By time, and...SEMPRONIUS, speak. SEM. My voice is still for WAR. No,* let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 oldal
...hearts subdued at length, and wrought By tune and ill success to a submission ? Scmpronius, speak. Semp. My voice is still for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate •' Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ! No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops,... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 oldal
...your works." The same phrase is used by Syphax; and then, again, Sernpronius is made to bawl out— " My voice is still for war, Gods ! can a Roman Senate long debate," &c. And so these gods—than which it is impossible to conceive of any term more offensive to an unadulterated... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 oldal
...pronounee your thoughts :— arc they still fix'd To hold it out, and fight it to the last ? Or arc your hearts subdu'd at length, and wrought By time and ill success to a submission ? Seropronius, speak. Si-m. [Rises.] My voice is still for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate... | |
 | 1839 - 742 oldal
...the Roman senate was the first which came to mind ; so, turning towards Joseph, and commencing with " My voice is still for war : Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate," &,c. he delivered a portion of it with nil the action and energy which a eulogium on the merits of... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 oldal
...time, and ill success, I to a submission ? | Serapronius, speaA. I Semp. My voke is still for war. | Can a Roman senate long debate | Which of the two...slav'ry, or death' ? | No, — | let us rise at once', ! girt? on our swords', | An<£ , at the head of our remaining troops, | AttacA the foe', ! breaA through... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 oldal
...the former we have examples in all sudden and forcible or emphatic exclamations, as in the following: "Gods! can a Roman senate long debate which of the two to choose, slavery or death?" Of the latter, (in which from the absence of emotion the force of utterance is of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 oldal
...at length, and wro't, By time and ill success, to a submission 1 Sempronius, speak.— Sempronius. My voice is still for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate, Which of the two to choose, slavery^ or death 1 JVn , let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 oldal
...By time and ill success, to a submission 1 Semproniu.i, speak. — Sempronitu. My voice is ft, ill for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate, Which of the two to choose, slavery, or death? A*o ,* let us rise nt once, gird on oar swords, And, at tbe head of our remaining... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 oldal
...thoughts ; are they still fixed To hold it out and fight it to the last ? Or are your hearts subdued at length, and wrought, By time and ill success, to a submission? Sempronius, speak. tive than that of their cure, and the emancipation of my country from the superinhuman oppression under... | |
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My voice is still for war. Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? No ; let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his... 
