Lays of Ancient Rome, with Jory and the ArmadaLongmans, Green, 1887 - 191 Seiten |
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... early Consuls of Rome is to a great extent fabulous , few scholars have , since the time of Beaufort , ventured to deny . It is certain that , more than three hundred and sixty years after the date ordinarily assigned for the foundation ...
... early Consuls of Rome is to a great extent fabulous , few scholars have , since the time of Beaufort , ventured to deny . It is certain that , more than three hundred and sixty years after the date ordinarily assigned for the foundation ...
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... early history of Rome is indeed far more poetical than anything else in Latin literature . loves of the Vestal and the God of War , the cradle laid among the reeds of Tiber , the fig - tree , the she- wolf , the shepherd's cabin , the ...
... early history of Rome is indeed far more poetical than anything else in Latin literature . loves of the Vestal and the God of War , the cradle laid among the reeds of Tiber , the fig - tree , the she- wolf , the shepherd's cabin , the ...
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... his eleven books . It is discernible in the most tedious and in the most superficial modern works on the early times of Rome . It enlivens the dulness of the Universal History , and gives a charm PREFACE . xi HORATIUS.
... his eleven books . It is discernible in the most tedious and in the most superficial modern works on the early times of Rome . It enlivens the dulness of the Universal History , and gives a charm PREFACE . xi HORATIUS.
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... early history of the Great City was detected so many years ago , the first critic who distinctly saw from what source that poetical element had been derived was James Peri- zonius , one of the most acute and learned antiquaries of the ...
... early history of the Great City was detected so many years ago , the first critic who distinctly saw from what source that poetical element had been derived was James Peri- zonius , one of the most acute and learned antiquaries of the ...
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... early Romans should have had ballad- poetry , and that this poetry should have perished , is therefore not strange . It would , on the contrary , have been strange if these things had not come to pass ; and we should be justified in ...
... early Romans should have had ballad- poetry , and that this poetry should have perished , is therefore not strange . It would , on the contrary , have been strange if these things had not come to pass ; and we should be justified in ...
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Seite 176 - Now let there be the merry sound of music and of dance, Through thy corn-fields green, and sunny vines, oh pleasant land of France! And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Seite 24 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Seite 8 - East and west and south and north, The messengers ride fast, And tower and town and cottage Have heard the trumpet's blast. Shame on the false Etruscan Who lingers in his home, When Porsena of Clusium Is on the march for Rome.
Seite 25 - In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three: Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius, — A Ramnian proud was he: "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Seite 26 - Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great ; Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were fairly sold : The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Seite 42 - It stands in the Comitium Plain for all folk to see; Horatius in his harness, Halting upon one knee : And underneath is written, In letters all of gold, How valiantly he kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Seite 43 - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows...
Seite 36 - Thrice looked he at the city; Thrice looked he at the dead; And thrice came on in fury, And thrice turned back in dread: And, white with fear and hatred, Scowled at the narrow way Where, wallowing in a pool of blood, The bravest Tuscans lay. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the boiling tide. 'Come back, come back, Horatius!
Seite 34 - Right firmly pressed his heel, And thrice and four times tugged amain, Ere he wrenched out the steel. 'And see...
Seite 38 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,