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... close when the best that Rome owned was cast into the pit then , and not till then . She tried one precious thing after another in vain . The bodeful chasm still stretched wide its hungry jaws . Livy now : — Then young Marcus Curtius ...
... close when the best that Rome owned was cast into the pit then , and not till then . She tried one precious thing after another in vain . The bodeful chasm still stretched wide its hungry jaws . Livy now : — Then young Marcus Curtius ...
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... close after this followed a storm - cloud with crashing thunder . When he asked what was the monster and what the portent meant , he was told it was " the devastation of Italy ; let him go straight on and ask no more questions , and ...
... close after this followed a storm - cloud with crashing thunder . When he asked what was the monster and what the portent meant , he was told it was " the devastation of Italy ; let him go straight on and ask no more questions , and ...
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... close quarters , and rolling down huge stones upon the army . It was on the rear that the enemy pressed in greatest force . The infan- try column wheeled and faced him , but it was proved , beyond a doubt , that , had not the rear been ...
... close quarters , and rolling down huge stones upon the army . It was on the rear that the enemy pressed in greatest force . The infan- try column wheeled and faced him , but it was proved , beyond a doubt , that , had not the rear been ...
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... close under the hills of Cortona . Between them is nothing but a very narrow road , for which room seems to have been purposely left . Farther on is some comparatively broad , level ground . From this rise the hills , and here in the ...
... close under the hills of Cortona . Between them is nothing but a very narrow road , for which room seems to have been purposely left . Farther on is some comparatively broad , level ground . From this rise the hills , and here in the ...
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... close upon the overthrow of Trasumennus . An unprecedented expedient was adopted . A dictator was created , the dictator being Fabius Maximus . This is that memorable master of delay , destined at last to save Rome by a long course of ...
... close upon the overthrow of Trasumennus . An unprecedented expedient was adopted . A dictator was created , the dictator being Fabius Maximus . This is that memorable master of delay , destined at last to save Rome by a long course of ...
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Seite 221 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Seite 206 - Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art, With pity, and with terror, tear my heart; And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where.
Seite 225 - As might, from the foregoing, be guessed, the well-worn phrase, mens sana in corpore sano, " a sound mind in a sound body,
Seite 225 - Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Seite 221 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye, suspended wait ; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost ; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay ; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day : The...
Seite 205 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
Seite 179 - O how oft shall he On Faith and changed Gods complain : and Seas Rough with black winds and storms Unwonted shall admire : Who now enjoys thee credulous, all Gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee ; of flattering gales Unmindful. Hapless they To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me in my vow'd Picture the sacred wall declares t' have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of Sea.
Seite 202 - To thee, the world its present homage pays, The harvest early, but mature the praise...
Seite 204 - And rarely av'rice taints the tuneful mind. Allow him but his plaything of a Pen, He ne'er rebels, or plots, like other men: Flight...
Seite 185 - Rejoices with a wholesome fear, And hopes in spite of pain ; If Winter bellow from the north, Soon the sweet Spring comes dancing forth, And Nature laughs again. What if thine Heaven be overcast, The dark appearance will not last ; Expect a brighter sky. The God that strings the silver bow Awakes sometimes the muses too, And lays his arrows by.