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... face shines with happiness like a glory ; any one might take you for the winner and me for the loser . " " And what is there in the losɛ or gain of those dull pieces of metal that should change our spirit , my Clodius ? Per Jove ! while ...
... face shines with happiness like a glory ; any one might take you for the winner and me for the loser . " " And what is there in the losɛ or gain of those dull pieces of metal that should change our spirit , my Clodius ? Per Jove ! while ...
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... face of stone , reads them a section of Cicero de Officiis . Unskilful pharmacists ! pleasure and study are not elements to be thus mixed together - they must be enjoyed separately ; the Romans lose both by this prag- matical ...
... face of stone , reads them a section of Cicero de Officiis . Unskilful pharmacists ! pleasure and study are not elements to be thus mixed together - they must be enjoyed separately ; the Romans lose both by this prag- matical ...
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... face with- out a beard seem in my eyes . " " And lo ! one of the handsomest in Pompeii , old Diomed's daughter , the rich Julia , " said Clodius , as a young lady , her face covered by her veil , and attended by two female slaves ...
... face with- out a beard seem in my eyes . " " And lo ! one of the handsomest in Pompeii , old Diomed's daughter , the rich Julia , " said Clodius , as a young lady , her face covered by her veil , and attended by two female slaves ...
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... face and a large dower . What more can he desire ? " Glaucus sighed . They were now in a street less crowded than the rest , at the end of which they beheld that broad and most lovely sea , which upon those delicious coasts seems to ...
... face and a large dower . What more can he desire ? " Glaucus sighed . They were now in a street less crowded than the rest , at the end of which they beheld that broad and most lovely sea , which upon those delicious coasts seems to ...
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... face ; her manners are not maiden - like , and her mind knows no culture save that of pleasure . " " You are ungrateful . Tell me , then , who is the for- tunate virgin ? " " You shall hear , my Clodius . Several months ago , I was ...
... face ; her manners are not maiden - like , and her mind knows no culture save that of pleasure . " " You are ungrateful . Tell me , then , who is the for- tunate virgin ? " " You shall hear , my Clodius . Several months ago , I was ...
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amid amphitheatre answered Apæcides Arbaces arena arms art thou Athenian beautiful behold beneath blind girl breast breath brow Burbo Calenus Campania canst chamber charm Christian Clodius cried crowd dark death Diomed door dost dream earth Egyptian Epicurus Eumolpus eyes face fate fear felt flowers gaze gladiator Glaucus gloom gods Greek hand hast thou hath heard heart heaven Herculaneum hour Ione Isis Julia Lepidus light lips Lydon Medon mighty nature Nazarene never Niger night Nydia Olinthus once Pansa passion paused peristyle pleasure Pompeians Pompeii portico prætor priest replied retiarius returned robes Roman rose round Sallust seat seemed sesterces sighed slave smile soft solemn Sosia soul stood Stratonice suddenly tablinum temple Tetraides thee thermæ Thessalian thine thing thou art thou hast thou knowest thou wilt thought trembled uttered Vesuvius voice vols witch words young youth
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الصفحة 179 - ... darkness lay over it, and upon its groaning and tossing waves the storm of cinders and rock fell without the protection which the streets and roofs afforded to the land. Wild, haggard, ghastly with supernatural fears, these groups encountered each other, but without the leisure to speak, to consult, to advise ; for the showers fell now frequently, though not...
الصفحة 178 - In some places, immense fragments of rock, hurled upon the house-roofs, bore down along the streets masses of confused ruin, which yet more and more, with every hour, obstructed the way ; and as the day advanced, the motion of the earth was more sensibly felt—- the footing seemed to slide and creep — nor could chariot or litter be kept steady even on the most level ground. Sometimes the huger stones, striking against each other as they fell, broke into countless fragments, emitting sparks of...
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الصفحة 182 - ... the streets, they were enabled by that awful light to steer and guide their progress. Yet little did the view it presented to them cheer or encourage their path. In parts where the ashes lay dry and uncommixed with the boiling torrents cast upward from the mountain, at capricious intervals — the surface of the earth presented a leprous and ghastly •white. In other places, cinder and rock lay matted in heaps, from beneath which might be seen the half-hid limbs of some crushed and mangled fugitive....
الصفحة 164 - ... snuffing the upward air with impatient sighs ; then suddenly it sprang forward, but not on the Athenian. At half-speed it circled round and round the space, turning its vast head from side to side with an anxious and perturbed gaze, as if seeking only some avenue of escape ; once or twice it endeavored to leap up the parapet that divided it from the audience, and, on failing, uttered rather a baffled howl than its deep-toned and kingly roar.
الصفحة 163 - The lion had been kept without food for twenty-four hours, and the animal had, during the whole morning, testified a singular and restless uneasiness, which the keeper had attributed to the pangs of hunger. Yet its bearing seemed rather that of fear than of rage ; its roar was painful and distressed; it hung its head — snuffed the air through the bars — then lay down — started again — and again uttered its wild and far-resounding cries.
الصفحة 189 - The white walls and gleaming columns that had adorned the lovely coasts were no more. Sullen and dull were the shores so lately crested by the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii . The darlings of the Deep were snatched from her embrace ! Century after century shall the mighty Mother stretch forth her azure arms, and know them not...