Lays of Ancient RomeE. H. Butler, 1854 - 222 pages |
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... Tuscan patterns . It attained a still higher degree of excellence among the English and the Lowland Scotch , during the fourteenth , fifteenth , and sixteenth centuries . But it reached its full perfection in ancient Greece ; for there ...
... Tuscan patterns . It attained a still higher degree of excellence among the English and the Lowland Scotch , during the fourteenth , fifteenth , and sixteenth centuries . But it reached its full perfection in ancient Greece ; for there ...
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... Tuscan bands ; Nor house , nor fence , nor dovecote In Crustumerium stands . Verbenna down to Ostia Hath wasted all the plain ; Astur hath stormed Janiculum , And the stout guards are slain . XVIII . I wis , in all the Senate , There ...
... Tuscan bands ; Nor house , nor fence , nor dovecote In Crustumerium stands . Verbenna down to Ostia Hath wasted all the plain ; Astur hath stormed Janiculum , And the stout guards are slain . XVIII . I wis , in all the Senate , There ...
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... To take in hand an axe : And Fathers mixed with Commons Seized hatchet , bar , and crow , And smote upon the planks above , And loosed the props below . BABCIHAN V XXXV . Meanwhile the Tuscan army , Right glorious to. 60 HORATIUS . V ...
... To take in hand an axe : And Fathers mixed with Commons Seized hatchet , bar , and crow , And smote upon the planks above , And loosed the props below . BABCIHAN V XXXV . Meanwhile the Tuscan army , Right glorious to. 60 HORATIUS . V ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. XXXV . Meanwhile the Tuscan army , Right glorious to behold , Came flashing back the noonday light , Rank behind rank , like surges bright Of a broad sea of gold . Four hundred trumpets sounded A ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. XXXV . Meanwhile the Tuscan army , Right glorious to behold , Came flashing back the noonday light , Rank behind rank , like surges bright Of a broad sea of gold . Four hundred trumpets sounded A ...
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... helmet , So fierce a thrust he sped , The good sword stood a hand - breadth out Behind the Tuscan's head . XLVI . And the great Lord of Luna Fell at that deadly stroke , As falls on Mount Alvernus A thunder - smitten oak 66 HORATIUS .
... helmet , So fierce a thrust he sped , The good sword stood a hand - breadth out Behind the Tuscan's head . XLVI . And the great Lord of Luna Fell at that deadly stroke , As falls on Mount Alvernus A thunder - smitten oak 66 HORATIUS .
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