 | 1881 - 622 pages
...stood at is side, was about to desert him ; but his courage did not falter. ' Though they should set the sun on my right hand ' and the moon on my left to persuade me, yet while God com' mands me I will not renounce my purpose.' And he burst into tears... | |
 | University of Oxford - College verse - 1810 - 186 pages
...his head should crashing Thunders peal, And yawning Hell his last abyss reveal, 1' " If they should place the sun on my right hand, and " the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my " course." Gibbon's Rom. Emp. vol. ix. p. 265. Back would he shrink, but... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 678 pages
...in Thor's -\ dark cave reclin'd, He caught the moanings of the midnight wind ; * " If they sliould place the sun on my right hand, and the " moon on my left, they should not divert me from niy course." — Gibbon's Roiu. Em. Vol. IX. p. 285. t Three days and three... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 670 pages
...sad in Thor's f dark cave reclin'd, He caught the moanings of the midnight wind ; * " If they should place the sun on my right hand, and the " moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course."— Gibbon's Rom. Km. Vol. IX. p. 285. t Three days and three... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...design. " Spare your remonstrances," replied the fanatic, to his uncle and benefactor, " if they should place the sun on my right hand and the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course." He persevered ten years in the exercise of his mission, during... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...design. " Spare your remonstrances," replied the fanatic, to his uncle and benefactor, " if they should place the sun on my right hand and the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course." He persevered ten years in the exercise of his mission, during... | |
 | Oxford univ, prize poems - 1816 - 214 pages
...his head should crashing Thunders peal, And yawning Hell his last abyss reveal, l1 " If they should place the sun on my right hand, and " the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my " course." Gibbon's Rom. Emp. vol. ix. p. 284. Back would he shrink, bat... | |
 | University of Oxford - College verse - 1828 - 222 pages
...through the night-air's drear expanse", On wing more rapid than a shot-star's glance ; 8 If they should place the sun on my right hand, and the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course. Gibbon's Roman Empire, vol. ix. p. 285. 9 Three days and three... | |
 | University of Oxford - College verse - 1828 - 216 pages
...through the night-air's drear expanse", On wing more rapid than a shot-star's glance ; 8 If they should place the sun on my right hand, and the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course. Gibbon's Roman Empire, vol. ix. p. 285. • Three days and three... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...Luther before his accusers in the presence of the Emperor Charles V. " If they put," said Mohammed, " the sun on my right hand, and the moon on my left, I will not give up the course I am pursuing until Allah (God) gives me success, or I perish." The Turks,... | |
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Spare your remonstrances,' replied the intrepid fanatic to his uncle and benefactor; 'if they should place the sun on my right hand and the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course. 
