Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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Sivu 30
... race be run , Along Morea's hills the setting sun , Not as in northern clime obscurely bright , But one unclouded blaze of living light ; O'er the hushed deep the yellow beams he throws , Gilds the green wave that trembles as it glows ...
... race be run , Along Morea's hills the setting sun , Not as in northern clime obscurely bright , But one unclouded blaze of living light ; O'er the hushed deep the yellow beams he throws , Gilds the green wave that trembles as it glows ...
Sivu 46
... race of fierce barbarians had broken into the decaying provinces of the Roman empire , and swept away their government , their laws , their property , and their insti- tutions . But the Christian faith had proved more powerful than the ...
... race of fierce barbarians had broken into the decaying provinces of the Roman empire , and swept away their government , their laws , their property , and their insti- tutions . But the Christian faith had proved more powerful than the ...
Sivu 54
... race of giants to a brood of pigmies . Modern partiality cannot claim for Tasso the merit of having conceived a band of heroes whose characters were as strongly marked , or boldly drawn , as those of the Grecian bard ; yet may it justly ...
... race of giants to a brood of pigmies . Modern partiality cannot claim for Tasso the merit of having conceived a band of heroes whose characters were as strongly marked , or boldly drawn , as those of the Grecian bard ; yet may it justly ...
Sivu 64
... race of heroes sprung from this occasion ; but he met her as he was tending his herds , and she her lambs . The beauteous daughters of the Trojan chiefs repaired to the hot and cold springs of the Scamander , near the Scean Gate , but ...
... race of heroes sprung from this occasion ; but he met her as he was tending his herds , and she her lambs . The beauteous daughters of the Trojan chiefs repaired to the hot and cold springs of the Scamander , near the Scean Gate , but ...
Sivu 82
... race , in pursuance of its appointed mission , over half the globe ! What marvellous effect had the heroism and skill of Robert Bruce upon the subsequent history of Scotland , and , through it , on the fortunes of the British race ...
... race , in pursuance of its appointed mission , over half the globe ! What marvellous effect had the heroism and skill of Robert Bruce upon the subsequent history of Scotland , and , through it , on the fortunes of the British race ...
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