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The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion - Page 85
by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812
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Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its Neighbourhood

Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pages
...only arm that could shake them asunder—the arm of the Holy One. " Not all proud Thebes' unrivaU'd walls contain, The world's great empress, on th* Egyptian plain; That spreads her conquest o'er a thousand slates, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Five hundred horsemen...
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An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels ..., Volume 10

William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 356 pages
...Diospolis and then Thebes. Its opulence and power were singularly great. Not all proud Thebes' unrivaU'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th" Egyptian...conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through an hundred gates. Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars. From each wide portal issuing...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...S%Krfu. IL. 9,381. Not all proud Thebes' unrivalled walls contain, The world's great empresi on tlia Egyptian plain ; That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...town; Not all prond Thebes' uurival'd walls contain, 500 '-Hie world's great empress on th' JEgyptian plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...golden tides of wealth that crown The many-peopled Orehomcnian town ; Not all proud Thebes' nnrivnll'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' .Egyptian...plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand stau s, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars, From...
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Literary life and select works of Benjamin Stillingfleet [ed. by W. Coxe].

Benjamin Stillingfleet - 1811 - 522 pages
...change his purpose. " Not all proud Thebes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world.s great empress on the Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours, her heroes through an hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars, From each wide portal issuing...
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Herodotus, tr., with notes, by W. Beloe, Volume 1

Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...perhaps be given, than by the following lines translated from Homer: Not all proud Thebe's unrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' ^Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquest o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred giites; Two hundred horsemen,...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 1, Part 1

1813 - 350 pages
...Orchomeniaii town ; Not all proud Thebes' uni ivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on the' Egyptian plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred oars From each wide portal issuing to...
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Herodotus, Volume 1

Herodotus - 1814 - 422 pages
...the ./Egyptiaft coast is three thousand six hundred stadia; from the Not all proud Thebe's imrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquest o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates; Two hundred horsemen,...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1

Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...Orchomenian town; Not all proud Thebes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on the' Egyptian plain, .(That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to...
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