| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...daring? He draws his well-tried sword, places his back against the towering rock, and shouts defiance: " Come one— come all— this rock shall fly From its firm base ал soon as I." Nobly said. But come with me to the stndy of one who has angered pope and cardinal,... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...the chief his haughty stare ; His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
| Byron Sunderland - Episcopacy - 1848 - 192 pages
...antiquity, I was resolved to plant myself against the Bible as the Rock of my defence, and cry, — " Come one, come all, this Rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I !" And if at last (to keep up the allusion) you were still disposed to insist on those principles which... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...car, and re-import' The period past', — re-give' the given hour'. O for yes'terdays to come ! 2. Come' one, come all' ! — This rock' shall fly From its firm base', as soon as I. 3. Begone' ! run' to your homes, fall' on your knees, Pray' to the gods to intermit the plagues' That... | |
| Elocution - 1848 - 310 pages
...OF EMOTION. COURAGE. Orotund Quality, Loud Utterance, Thorough Stress, High Pitch, Brisk Movement. " Come one, come all, — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.1 FEAR. Half Whisper, Suppressed Force, Explosive Radical Stress, Highest Pitch, Rapid Movement.... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1848 - 628 pages
...hostility to which he was exposed. It was then that he often reminded me of that glowing passage — ' Come one, come all — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as 1.' " I should not do him justice in thus speaking of his courage, if I neglected to mention that,... | |
| Charles Buxton - Philanthropists - 1848 - 652 pages
...hostility to which he was exposed. It was then that he often reminded me of that glowing passage — ' Come one, come all — this rock shall fly From its firm base aa soon as 1.' "I should not do him justice in thus speaking of his courage, if I neglected to mention... | |
| Charles Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 542 pages
...hostility to which he was exposed. It was then that he often reminded me of that glowing passage — ' Come one, come all— this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.' \ "I should not do him justice in thus speaking of his courage, if I neglected to mention that, combined... | |
| James W. Redfield - Facial expression - 1849 - 110 pages
...it ; for to " stand one's ground," as we familiarly say, is to exercise both of these faculties. " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I" — expresses the simultaneous action of self-defence and firmness. The horse has the signs of both... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...OF EMOTION. COUBAGB. Orotund Quality, Laud Utterance, Thorough Stress, High Pitch, Brisk Movement. " Come one, come all, — this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.1 FEAR. Half Whisper, Suppressed Force, Explosive Radical Stress, Highest Pitch, Rapid Movement.... | |
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