Stonehenge; Or, The Romans in Britain: A Romance Or the Days of Nero, المجلد 1 |
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الصفحة 6
... some difficulty , and not without a severe wound in his shoulder from a brazen - headed javelin , he extricated himself from his assailants , and spurring his horse , soon distanced his pur- suers . 6 STONEHENGE ; OR ,
... some difficulty , and not without a severe wound in his shoulder from a brazen - headed javelin , he extricated himself from his assailants , and spurring his horse , soon distanced his pur- suers . 6 STONEHENGE ; OR ,
الصفحة 7
... horse , soon distanced his pur- suers . Having escaped from immediate danger , he slackened his speed , and directed his course to- wards an open space to avoid the woods and thickets in which the Britons were accustomed to lie in ...
... horse , soon distanced his pur- suers . Having escaped from immediate danger , he slackened his speed , and directed his course to- wards an open space to avoid the woods and thickets in which the Britons were accustomed to lie in ...
الصفحة 10
... horse in a neighbour- ing thicket , and advanced cautiously on foot till he reached a mound in the vicinity , from whence , by lying on his breast with his head just peering over , he was able to view , unper- ceived , the whole scene ...
... horse in a neighbour- ing thicket , and advanced cautiously on foot till he reached a mound in the vicinity , from whence , by lying on his breast with his head just peering over , he was able to view , unper- ceived , the whole scene ...
الصفحة 14
... horse . A moment's delay must be fatal . Throwing aside his cloak , therefore , he rushed amid the multitude , and rendered al- most irresistible by a sense of his danger , seemed , at first , to annihilate all opposition . As he strode ...
... horse . A moment's delay must be fatal . Throwing aside his cloak , therefore , he rushed amid the multitude , and rendered al- most irresistible by a sense of his danger , seemed , at first , to annihilate all opposition . As he strode ...
الصفحة 15
... horse - his beloved horse - his only hope of succour , laid hold of by some of his foes . A spirit of desperation seized him : he leaped forward with a prodigious bound , and snatched at the rein ; but his foot slipped , and he fell on ...
... horse - his beloved horse - his only hope of succour , laid hold of by some of his foes . A spirit of desperation seized him : he leaped forward with a prodigious bound , and snatched at the rein ; but his foot slipped , and he fell on ...
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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.