Stonehenge; or, The Romans in Britain, by Malachi Mouldy1842 |
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... 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 8 STONEHENGE ; OR ,
... 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 8 STONEHENGE ; OR ,
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... fire , whose flames lighted up the whole scene with a lurid but uncertain glare . Around this fire stood a number of tall , motionless , forms , of a superhuman height , and behind them appeared several shadowy , cavern - like arches ...
... fire , whose flames lighted up the whole scene with a lurid but uncertain glare . Around this fire stood a number of tall , motionless , forms , of a superhuman height , and behind them appeared several shadowy , cavern - like arches ...
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... fire . Before this altar stood the Arch Druid , in his magni- ficent pontifical robes ; his right hand grasping a golden sceptre . His long silver side locks blended with his beard ; and the baldness of his forehead was hidden by an ...
... fire . Before this altar stood the Arch Druid , in his magni- ficent pontifical robes ; his right hand grasping a golden sceptre . His long silver side locks blended with his beard ; and the baldness of his forehead was hidden by an ...
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... fire . Before this altar stood the Arch Druid , in his magni- ficent pontifical robes ; his right hand grasping a golden sceptre . His long silver side locks blended with his beard ; and the baldness of his forehead was hidden by an ...
... fire . Before this altar stood the Arch Druid , in his magni- ficent pontifical robes ; his right hand grasping a golden sceptre . His long silver side locks blended with his beard ; and the baldness of his forehead was hidden by an ...
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... fire broke forth with ten - fold fury ; when , unfortunately , our hero's steed , terrified at the sudden blaze , uttered a kind of shrieking neigh , which appa- rently thrilled with consternation the whole assembly . " A foe ! a foe ...
... fire broke forth with ten - fold fury ; when , unfortunately , our hero's steed , terrified at the sudden blaze , uttered a kind of shrieking neigh , which appa- rently thrilled with consternation the whole assembly . " A foe ! a foe ...
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accused amid appeared Arch Druid Arviragus attention Aulus Plautius Aulus Pudens bard baths beautiful beheld Brennus Britain British Britons Cæsar called Celt CHAPTER Christianity Claudia Cleonicus companion conceal conversation countenance course courtiers Cymbeline death described divine Druidical Druidism Emperor excited expedient eyes fate father favourite feelings felt fire flames fortune Frothall Gaul gods GUIDERIUS hand harp hast hath heart heaven immortal kind King light Linus Lucan marble ment mind mysteries narrative nature Nero Nero's never old Morgan Old Sarum Ovate person Petronius Pharsalia poet Pomponia poor present priest Pudens Pudens's reader religion replied Roman ROMANS IN BRITAIN Rome Roscrana round Ryno sacred scene seemed Seneca singular soon soul spirit stone STONEHENGE storm sublime Suetonius tablinum Taranis tears temple Tenax thee things thou thought Tigellinus tion Uchelwyr vessel voice waves young
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Page 48 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 196 - 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.
Page 205 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
Page 65 - Oxford ! one of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ; The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous, So excellent in art and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God Kath.
Page 279 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 153 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Page 138 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ; The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its poet's sylvan grave. In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp shall now be laid, That he, whose heart in sorrow bleeds, May love through life the soothing shade.
Page 97 - 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...
Page 218 - And on thy happy shore a temple still, Of small and delicate proportion, keeps, Upon a mild declivity of hill, Its memory of thee...
Page 115 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.