Lights and Shadows of African History, Volumen10Bradbury, Soden & Company, 1844 - 336 páginas |
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... called the Fortunate Islands , not from any peculiar felicity of soil and cli- mate which they actually possessed , but merely be- cause distance and imperfect knowledge left full scope to poetical fancy . Hence we find Horace painting ...
... called the Fortunate Islands , not from any peculiar felicity of soil and cli- mate which they actually possessed , but merely be- cause distance and imperfect knowledge left full scope to poetical fancy . Hence we find Horace painting ...
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... called Solocis , or the promontory of Libya , on which they erected a temple to Neptune . They sailed round a bay thickly bordered with plantations of reeds , where numerous elephants and other wild animals were feed- ing . Beyond this ...
... called Solocis , or the promontory of Libya , on which they erected a temple to Neptune . They sailed round a bay thickly bordered with plantations of reeds , where numerous elephants and other wild animals were feed- ing . Beyond this ...
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... called Thebais , from its capital , Thebes , the city of a hundred gates . Many proofs of the former grandeur and magnificence of this ancient metropolis still remain ; and unrivalled temples , palaces , and col- umns vindicate the ...
... called Thebais , from its capital , Thebes , the city of a hundred gates . Many proofs of the former grandeur and magnificence of this ancient metropolis still remain ; and unrivalled temples , palaces , and col- umns vindicate the ...
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... called Octavius . Cleopatra's charms , however , drew him back to Egypt ; and when he proceeded on his ex- pedition against Parthia , she made him odious by the cruelties and oppressions which she urged him to prac- tise . When the ...
... called Octavius . Cleopatra's charms , however , drew him back to Egypt ; and when he proceeded on his ex- pedition against Parthia , she made him odious by the cruelties and oppressions which she urged him to prac- tise . When the ...
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... called The Inimitable Livers , of which they were both members ; they now , in their misfortunes , insti- tuted another with the title of The Companions in Death . To this they admitted their friends , and passed their time in banquets ...
... called The Inimitable Livers , of which they were both members ; they now , in their misfortunes , insti- tuted another with the title of The Companions in Death . To this they admitted their friends , and passed their time in banquets ...
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Página 37 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 86 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib ? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee ? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Página 54 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 37 - Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature.
Página 37 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Página 230 - I shall only observe that no event which took place during the journey, ever threw the smallest gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr: Anderson in the grave. I then felt myself, as if left a second time lonely and friendless amidst the wilds of Africa.
Página 91 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins" of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Página 219 - ... he must inevitably have been dashed to pieces. The shepherds being anxious to proceed, gave themselves little trouble about me or my horse, and kept walking on at a considerable distance. It was about eleven o'clock, as I stopped to drink a little water at a rivulet (my companions being near a quarter of a mile before me), that I heard some people calling to each other, and presently a loud screaming, as from a person in great distress. I immediately conjectured that a lion had taken one of the...
Página 88 - Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon : 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife : and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister : that it may be well with me for thy sake ; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Página 288 - In this island we stayed certain days, going every day on shore to take the inhabitants, with burning and spoiling their towns ; who before were Sapies, and were conquered by the Samboses, inhabitants beyond Sierra Leona.