 Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night...  Continuous Latin prose, exercises - Seite 153von James Moir - 1880Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1840 - 612 Seiten
...smallness of the treasure which he had found ; but promised to spare their lives, and retired to rest. Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards ; and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | 1849 - 792 Seiten
...richness of Ariosto's imagination, he can, when necessary, exhibit the terrible powers of Dante. " Then was committed that great crime — memorable...which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | 1840 - 612 Seiten
...memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards ; and the guards determined...known by the fearful name of the Black Hole. Even fora single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 Seiten
...dead bodies, a hundred and twenty-three in number, were flung into it promiscuously, and covered up. Then was committed that great crime, memorable for...which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards ; and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 Seiten
...description is at least equally applicable to the vast plain of the Lowar Ganges. Whatever the Bengalee does, -—^Then was committed that great crime, memorable...which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards; and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 Seiten
...the smallnesc of the treasure he had found, but promised to spare their lives, and retired to rest. out all those at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 Seiten
...obtain arbitrary power, if it could be obtained without risk or trouble. History of England, i. ii. Then was committed that great crime — memorable...which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | 1849 - 822 Seiten
...the richness of Ariosto's imagination, he can, when necessary, exhibit the terrible powers of Dante. "Then was committed that great crime — memorable...which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | 1849 - 742 Seiten
...the richness of Ariosto's imagination, he can, when necessary, exhibit the terrible powers of Dante. Then was committed that great crime — memorable...which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 Seiten
...the gloom of Dante's conceptions. "Then was committed that great crime—memorable for its singnltf atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution...which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of... | |
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