 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...liAe of which no eye had seen, | nor heart conceived', | and which no tongue can adequately tell. 1 All the horrors of war, before known, or heard' of,...mer'cy to that new havoc. | A storm of universal fire', I blasted every field', | consumed every house/ | and destroyed every tem.ple. | The miserable inhabitants,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable in!.'bis tanta flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered, others, without regard... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pages
...which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents on the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of...universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, and destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 pages
...this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of woe before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1870 - 954 pages
...which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents on the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of...war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havock." * The terrified inhabitants of Madras could trace the progress of the ruthless invader as... | |
 | Madras (India : Presidency), Charles Stewart Crole - Chingleput (India : District) - 1879 - 472 pages
...increasing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, fleeing from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered, others without regard to sex, to age,... | |
 | George Frederick Magoun - Congregational churches - 1879 - 560 pages
...man who, according to the great orator, let down upon the plains of the Carnatic a storm of war and woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived and no tongue could tell — even he, when bringing his enemies to terms in negotiating a treaty, could... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1879 - 298 pages
...Remark G.) 2. The antecedent term is sometimes omitted; as, " [To say all] in a word, he is ruined;" "All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy [when compared] to that new havoc."— Burke. " These, [reckoning] to a man, will hate or suspect him."—... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...this menacing meteor which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole eveiy house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages,... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1881 - 264 pages
...the menacing meteor which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then...were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal tire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants,... | |
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Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the... 
