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... force for popular culture which has already exerted , and which is destined still to exert , no small proportion of influence in continuing , if not perpetuating , among Americans , the prosecution of classical studies . We refer to the ...
... force for popular culture which has already exerted , and which is destined still to exert , no small proportion of influence in continuing , if not perpetuating , among Americans , the prosecution of classical studies . We refer to the ...
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... force in open day through the defiles . In this feint , preparing a movement not really intended , the day was spent , and the camp was fortified on the spot on which it had been pitched . But the moment Hannibal saw the mountaineers ...
... force in open day through the defiles . In this feint , preparing a movement not really intended , the day was spent , and the camp was fortified on the spot on which it had been pitched . But the moment Hannibal saw the mountaineers ...
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... force . The infan- try column wheeled and faced him , but it was proved , beyond a doubt , that , had not the rear been well strengthened , a terrible disaster would have been sustained in that pass . Even as it was , they were brought ...
... force . The infan- try column wheeled and faced him , but it was proved , beyond a doubt , that , had not the rear been well strengthened , a terrible disaster would have been sustained in that pass . Even as it was , they were brought ...
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... force which was in front of him ; he knew nothing of the ambuscade in his rear and above his head . The Carthaginian saw his wish accomplished . He had his enemy shut in by the lake and the hills and surrounded by his own troops . He ...
... force which was in front of him ; he knew nothing of the ambuscade in his rear and above his head . The Carthaginian saw his wish accomplished . He had his enemy shut in by the lake and the hills and surrounded by his own troops . He ...
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... forces along high ground , preserving a moderate distance from the enemy , neither letting him out of his sight nor encountering him . He kept his soldiers within their camp , unless they were required for some necessary service . When ...
... forces along high ground , preserving a moderate distance from the enemy , neither letting him out of his sight nor encountering him . He kept his soldiers within their camp , unless they were required for some necessary service . When ...
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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.