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... success , the Greeks being unac- quainted with any military engines fitted to make an impression on the Tro- jan walls . With such a numerous army they might have converted the siege into a blockade ; but scarcity of supplies compelled ...
... success , the Greeks being unac- quainted with any military engines fitted to make an impression on the Tro- jan walls . With such a numerous army they might have converted the siege into a blockade ; but scarcity of supplies compelled ...
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... successful omen , year of the world 3252 , B.C. 752. The city was at first nearly square , contain- ing about a thousand houses . It was almost a mile in compass , and com- manded a small territory round it of about eight miles . Small ...
... successful omen , year of the world 3252 , B.C. 752. The city was at first nearly square , contain- ing about a thousand houses . It was almost a mile in compass , and com- manded a small territory round it of about eight miles . Small ...
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... successful defence , against a superior but less de- termined enemy . But all hopes from this mode of resistance were damped by the consideration that an immense host of Persians might surround their city , and reduce them by famine ...
... successful defence , against a superior but less de- termined enemy . But all hopes from this mode of resistance were damped by the consideration that an immense host of Persians might surround their city , and reduce them by famine ...
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... success ; and last of all , the chosen band of Persians , headed by Hydarnes , deigned to display their valour in what appeared to them a very unequal contest . But they soon changed their opinion when they came to close with the enemy ...
... success ; and last of all , the chosen band of Persians , headed by Hydarnes , deigned to display their valour in what appeared to them a very unequal contest . But they soon changed their opinion when they came to close with the enemy ...
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... success , were averse to de- cline any offer of battle ; yet it is pro- bable that their admirals , and particu- larly Themistocles , would much rather have delayed it to a more favourable opportunity . Rage , resentment , and ...
... success , were averse to de- cline any offer of battle ; yet it is pro- bable that their admirals , and particu- larly Themistocles , would much rather have delayed it to a more favourable opportunity . Rage , resentment , and ...
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Page 213 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Page 298 - Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north; And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still : All night from tower to tower they sprang ; they sprang from hill to hill...
Page 486 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die : These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 486 - While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows; And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain; Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue; And even in penance planning sins anew.
Page 268 - ... rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits "of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed...
Page 268 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men —the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 298 - And the broad streams of pikes and flags rushed down each roaring street: And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, As fast from every village round the horse came spurring in : And eastward straight, from wild Blackheath, the warlike errand went, And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent.
Page 298 - Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire. The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves : O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew : He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu.
Page 266 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.