The MartyrsDerby & Jackson, 1859 - 451 Seiten |
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abode Achaia altar angel appeared Armorica arms arose barbarians beauty beheld beneath bishop bosom Cæsar catechumen celestial chariot charms Christians Church concealed confessors Constantine cried crown Cymodoce Cyril daugh daughter of Homer death Demodocus demon descended desert Diocletian divine Dorotheus earth emperor empire enemy eternal Eudorus exclaimed eyes faithful father fear forests Franks Galerius Gaul glory gods Greece hands happiness hastened head heart heaven hell Hierocles holy honor Ithome Jerome Jesus Christ Jupiter Lacedæmon Lasthenes legions light lyre martyr master Merovius Messenia midst mother Mount mountains Muses night palace passed persecution Pharamond prayers priest of Homer prince prison proconsul religion repose Roman Rome sacred sacrifice Satan seated seemed Sephora shores silence slave soldiers son of Lasthenes sorrows soul spouse summit Taygetus tears temple tender Teutates thee Thermæ thou tomb trembling Velleda vessel victim virgin virtue voice warriors waves words young Zacharius
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Seite 44 - She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Seite 272 - Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Seite viii - ... that might appear a defiance. Not to send it to any one would be a discourtesy ; I therefore send it to your lordship as one who, in the opinion of the people, views all political questions in an unprejudiced English spirit." In the silence of abject submission which reigned in France, we heard only the chains of the slave and the voice of the informer. That state of things concerned us. Despotism so near cast its shadow over England. To extend liberty here was a reproach to our ally ; every...
Seite 430 - ... the spectators — the entrance of the emperor — the immediate signs of the commencement of the sanguinary transaction — the unclosing of a tiger's den — and the speedy death of the victims, held in each other's embrace— closes with this catastrophe, which terminates also the work : " These martyred spouses had scarcely received the palm of victory, when a...
Seite 338 - The valley, bounded by these two chains of mountains, displays a soil resembling the bottom of a sea that has long retired from its bed, a beach covered with salt, dry mud, and moving sands, furrowed as it were by the waves. Here and there stunted shrubs with difficulty vegetate upon this inanimate tract; their leaves are covered with salt, which has nourished them, and their bark has a smoky smell and taste. Instead of villages you...
Seite 68 - Rome, it presents an avenue of more than three hundred miles in length, whose sides are adorned with temples, palaces, and monuments, and at length terminates at that eternal city.' ' At the view of so many prodigies I fell into a sort of delirium, which I could neither resist nor comprehend. It was in vain that the friends to whose care my father had entrusted me, wished to arouse me from this enchantment. I wandered from the town to the capitol, from the Carina to the Campus Martius ; I ran from...
Seite 430 - ... like that hallowed banner which led the victorious Constantine to the scene of triumph ; the thunder rolled along the Vatican, which was then a hill, all lonely and deserted, but which was frequently visited by an unknown spirit; the amphitheatre was shaken to its foundations; all the statues of the idols fell to the earth; and a voice like that which was formerly heard in Jerusalem, exclaimed, ' The gods have gone out of thee...
Seite 68 - ... laden with provisions ; the hunting equipage of a, Roman gentleman obstructed the sacred way ; the priest was hastening to. his duties in the temple, and the rhetorician to his school. How often did I visit the baths adorned with libraries ; and the palaces, of which some were already mouldering to decay, and others half demolished to serve for the construction of new edifices. The vast outlines of Roman architecture, that of themselves formed...
Seite 53 - ... desire for purity ought to be kindled in us, so as to be conformed to his image ; nor, indeed, can it be otherwise, but that he who acknowledges himself to be one of God's children should purify himself. And to make this exhor1 It is the character of John's style that he often passes as it were abruptly from the Son to the Father, and from the Father to the Son ; and often the antecedent is not the next preceding word, but one at some distance : we find this to be the case by what the sentence...
Seite 392 - And they presented him a cup full of wine for the libation. A horrible temptation seized the soul of Eudorus. Cymodoce in a place of infamy ! Cymodoce in the arms of Hierocles ! The bosom of the martyr heaved with emotion; the bandages burst from his wounds, and his blood flowed in streams from his body. The people, seized with pity, fell...