"Imprecate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when the mighty cause, Of George and Britain, is endangered? For nobly struggling, in the cause of kings, We claim the high, the just prerogative, To rule mankind, and with an iron rod, Exact submission, due, tho' absolute. What tho' they style me, villain, murderer, And imprecate from Heaven, dire thunderbolts, To crush my purposes—Was that a gun, Which thunders o'er the wave?—Or is it guilt, That plays the coward, with my trembling heart, And cools the blood, with frightful images. O guilt, thy blackness, hovers on the mind, Nor can the ...
— The Battle of Bunkers-Hill • Hugh Henry Brackenridge |
