Stonehenge; Or, The Romans in Britain: A Romance Or the Days of Nero, المجلد 1 |
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... Roman general Suetonius Paulinus . The native spirit of liberty was , however , ra- ther checked than extinguished by this dire blow , and began to revive under the en- couragement which it received from the dis- sensions existing ...
... Roman general Suetonius Paulinus . The native spirit of liberty was , however , ra- ther checked than extinguished by this dire blow , and began to revive under the en- couragement which it received from the dis- sensions existing ...
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... ROMANS IN BRITAIN . CHAPTER I. A wondrous pyle of rugged mountaynes standes , Placed on eche other in a dreare arraie , It ne could be the worke of human handes , It ne was reared up biè menne of claie . Here did the Brutons adoration ...
... ROMANS IN BRITAIN . CHAPTER I. A wondrous pyle of rugged mountaynes standes , Placed on eche other in a dreare arraie , It ne could be the worke of human handes , It ne was reared up biè menne of claie . Here did the Brutons adoration ...
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... Roman general in the capacity of what we should now style an aid - de - camp . Pudens had been a fellow student with Agricola , whom the pen of Tacitus has immortalized ; and , like him , having completed his studies at the Greek ...
... Roman general in the capacity of what we should now style an aid - de - camp . Pudens had been a fellow student with Agricola , whom the pen of Tacitus has immortalized ; and , like him , having completed his studies at the Greek ...
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... Roman accustomed to the glowing atmosphere of Italy , a mantle of icy darkness . In a fit of dejection , he wrapped his military cloak around him , and reclining on the cold heath , endea- voured , but in vain , to compose himself to ...
... Roman accustomed to the glowing atmosphere of Italy , a mantle of icy darkness . In a fit of dejection , he wrapped his military cloak around him , and reclining on the cold heath , endea- voured , but in vain , to compose himself to ...
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... in- dividuals , in long , light robes , bearing some- thing glittering in their hands . Other circles of living beings and motionless forms surround- ed these , B 3 THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN . 9 and though this seemed at intervals to illu- ...
... in- dividuals , in long , light robes , bearing some- thing glittering in their hands . Other circles of living beings and motionless forms surround- ed these , B 3 THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN . 9 and though this seemed at intervals to illu- ...
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Aaron and Julius ADDER STONE altar answered appeared Arch Druid arms Arviragus Aulus Plautius bard battle began beheld Bran Brennus Britain British Britons brother Cæsar called companions conversation countenance crana Cymbeline daughter death Druidical Druidism Durotriges endeavoured eyes fate father favourite feelings felt fire flames foes forest formed Frothall Gaul gods grove Guiderius hand hare harp hast hath head heart heaven honour horse javelin King King's light Linus listened Logan lord Luath ment mistletoe murder mysteries narrative Nennius noble old Ana old Morgan Old Sarum Ovate person present priest Pudens Pudens's reader replied Pudens robes Rome Roscrana round royal Ryno sacred scene scythed chariot seat seemed singular slain slumber soon soul sound stone Stonehenge storm Suetonius sword Taranis tears tell thee thou thought thunder tion Uchelwyr voice widow's wounded young chief youth
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الصفحة 228 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
الصفحة 125 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach...
الصفحة 110 - In these two princely boys ! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head : and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchaf 'd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine And make him stoop to the vale.
الصفحة vii - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
الصفحة 125 - And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
الصفحة 279 - Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
الصفحة 296 - Evandale, Whose limbs a thousand years have worn, What sullen roar comes down the gale, And drowns the hunter's pealing horn ? Mightiest of all the beasts of chase, That roam in woody Caledon, Crashing the forest in his race, The Mountain Bull comes thundering on. Fierce, on the hunter's quiver'd band, He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow, Spurns, with black hoof and horn, the sand, And tosses high his mane of snow.
الصفحة 175 - Scarce images of life, one here, one there, Lay vast and edgeways ; like a dismal cirque Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor, When the chill rain begins at shut of eve, In dull November, and their chancel vault, The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.
الصفحة 283 - Then eager caught an axe, and aim'da blow. Deep sunk within a violated oak The wounding edge, and thus the warrior spoke— ' Now let no doubting hand the task decline; Cut you the wood, and let the guilt be mine.
الصفحة 222 - Death's self could change not, mark the dreadful path Of the outsallying victors ; far behind Black ashes note where their proud city stood. Within yon forest is a gloomy glen — Each tree which guards its darkness from the day, Waves o'er a warrior's tomb.