Stonehenge; Or, The Romans in Britain: A Romance Or the Days of Nero, المجلد 1 |
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... few stars overhead , which shot in meteors across the heavens , the fitful light of this beacon was his only guide . No- thing is more deceptive than a distant fire ; and though this seemed at intervals to illu- mine the STONEHENGE ; OR ,
... few stars overhead , which shot in meteors across the heavens , the fitful light of this beacon was his only guide . No- thing is more deceptive than a distant fire ; and though this seemed at intervals to illu- mine the STONEHENGE ; OR ,
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... heaven an uplifted wand . He seemed some mighty magician , whose potent spell had drawn forth from their rock - built caves the giant forms which stood around , and before whom mortals crouching at their feet seemed but as pigmies ...
... heaven an uplifted wand . He seemed some mighty magician , whose potent spell had drawn forth from their rock - built caves the giant forms which stood around , and before whom mortals crouching at their feet seemed but as pigmies ...
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... horror ; deeds that shock'd Humanity , and call'd from angry heaven These curses on our country . - Mason's Caractacus . See , however , his note on this part.-ED. of the early part of his life in the neighbour- THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN . 17.
... horror ; deeds that shock'd Humanity , and call'd from angry heaven These curses on our country . - Mason's Caractacus . See , however , his note on this part.-ED. of the early part of his life in the neighbour- THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN . 17.
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... heavens ! how shall language describe the shudder which seized him , when he beheld on that wicker pile , as yet unconsumed , the body of a Roman sol- dier ! In the soldier's fate he read his own . A cold sweat crept over him ; his ...
... heavens ! how shall language describe the shudder which seized him , when he beheld on that wicker pile , as yet unconsumed , the body of a Roman sol- dier ! In the soldier's fate he read his own . A cold sweat crept over him ; his ...
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... Heaven nerve thy hand ! * The bards now sung in chorus to their harps a brief but very melodious strain , the burden of which was- Yon rock at thy touch , if unsullied thy soul , To and fro ' on its adamant pillow shall roll ; As old ...
... Heaven nerve thy hand ! * The bards now sung in chorus to their harps a brief but very melodious strain , the burden of which was- Yon rock at thy touch , if unsullied thy soul , To and fro ' on its adamant pillow shall roll ; As old ...
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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.