In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets... Miscellaneous Prose Works - Page 276by Walter Scott - 1853Full view - About this book
| 1849 - 602 pages
...high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets ; Stars shone with trains of fire i dews of blood fell ; Disasters veiled the sun, and the moist star... | |
| 1902 - 664 pages
...118, read Disaster'd. The whole passage will now appear as follows :— The gravea stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets ; Asters with trains of lire and dews of blood Disaster'd in the sun ; and the moiet star Upon whose... | |
| 1865 - 496 pages
...high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius feil, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. As, stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose... | |
| 1849 - 844 pages
...high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julins fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets ; Stars shone with trains of fire, dews of blood fell ; Disasters veiled the sun, and the moist star... | |
| 1849 - 822 pages
...high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets ; Stars shone with trains of fire, dews of blood fell ; Disasters veiled the sun, and the moist star... | |
| 1901 - 578 pages
...think that I shall make less alteration than Mu. THISELTUX has made :— The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Such monstrous prodigies were then beheld As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood. Disasters... | |
| John Wilson - 1850 - 378 pages
...high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julias fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; Stars shone with trains of fire, dews of blood fell ; Disasters veiled the sun, and the moist star... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...without a heart ?.. King a. 4 s. 7 A little ere, the mighty Julius fell, the graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead, did squeak, and gibber, in the Roman streets.. Hor. a. 1 *. 1 And then it started, like a guilty thing, upon a fearful summons,. Hor. a. I s. I All... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. * * * * * * * #10 As, stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, 1 Co-mart is the reading of the... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 400 pages
...high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets." The images of superstition are not always terrible. The halo, no doubt, is an unsubstantial, it may... | |
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