Bentley's Miscellany, Volumen23Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1848 |
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... Italian neighbours . He conquered them after a six years ' struggle , and thence he opened a way through the forest into the heart of Suabia , where he established his extreme outpost to watch the fierce Alle- manni . It was not ...
... Italian neighbours . He conquered them after a six years ' struggle , and thence he opened a way through the forest into the heart of Suabia , where he established his extreme outpost to watch the fierce Alle- manni . It was not ...
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... Italy and Sicily hope to conquer when their parent states had perished . Carthage had escaped the Persian yoke in the time of Cambyses through the reluctance of the Phoenician mariners to serve against their kinsmen . But such ...
... Italy and Sicily hope to conquer when their parent states had perished . Carthage had escaped the Persian yoke in the time of Cambyses through the reluctance of the Phoenician mariners to serve against their kinsmen . But such ...
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... Italy ; and the laws of Athens , rather than of Rome , might be the founda- tion of the law of the civilised world . " - ARNOLD . FEW cities have undergone more memorable sieges during ancient and mediæval times than has the city of ...
... Italy ; and the laws of Athens , rather than of Rome , might be the founda- tion of the law of the civilised world . " - ARNOLD . FEW cities have undergone more memorable sieges during ancient and mediæval times than has the city of ...
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... Italian republic of the middle ages , the rage of domestic sedition between aristo- crats and democrats ran high . Rancorous refugees swarmed in the camp of every invading enemy ; and every blockaded city was sure to contain within its ...
... Italian republic of the middle ages , the rage of domestic sedition between aristo- crats and democrats ran high . Rancorous refugees swarmed in the camp of every invading enemy ; and every blockaded city was sure to contain within its ...
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... Italy were next to be attacked . With large levies of Iberian mer- cenaries she then meant to overwhelm her Peloponnesian enemies . The Persian monarchy lay in hopeless imbecility , inviting Greek in- vasion ; nor did the known world ...
... Italy were next to be attacked . With large levies of Iberian mer- cenaries she then meant to overwhelm her Peloponnesian enemies . The Persian monarchy lay in hopeless imbecility , inviting Greek in- vasion ; nor did the known world ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 133 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 388 - Then leave the poor Plebeian his single tie to life — The sweet, sweet love of daughter, of sister, and of wife, The gentle speech, the balm for all that his vexed soul endures, The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours.
Página 639 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 270 - s great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones? Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile.
Página 388 - Heap heavier still the fetters; bar closer still the grate; Patient as sheep we yield us up unto your cruel hate. But, by the Shades beneath us, and by the Gods above, Add not unto your cruel hate your yet more cruel love!
Página 59 - Greek states to republican institutions, presenting infinite varieties of the blending or the alternate predominance of the oligarchical and democratical principles. In literature and science the Greek intellect followed no beaten track, and acknowledged no limitary rules. The Greeks thought their subjects boldly out ; and the novelty of a speculation invested it in their minds with interest, and not with criminality. Versatile, restless, enterprising, and self-confident, the Greeks presented the...
Página 390 - The fierce shouts of the Germans pealed through the gloom of the forests, and in thronging multitudes they assailed the flanks of the invaders, pouring in clouds of darts on the encumbered legionaries, as they struggled up the glens or floundered in the morasses...
Página 384 - Creasy to select for military description those few battles of which, in the words of Hnllam, ' a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes.
Página 530 - Abderrahman were puffed up in spirit by their repeated successes, and they were full of trust in the valor and the practice in war of their emir. So the Moslems smote their enemies, and passed the River Garonne, and laid waste the country, and took captives without number. And that army went through all places like a desolating storm. Prosperity made these warriors insatiable.
Página 131 - An easily-repelled attack was first made on the outwork in the daytime, probably more with the view of blinding the besieged to the nature of the main operations than with any expectation of succeeding in an open assault, with every disadvantage of the ground to contend against. But, when the darkness had set in, Demosthenes formed his men in columns, each soldier taking with him five days...