Materials and Models for Latin Prose CompositionRivingtons, 1875 - 361 pages |
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... up thither from the city to enjoy the surpassing beauty of the prospect . The green hill sides were now visited for a very different object ; ladies of the highest rank might be seen cutting up 8 Materials and Models.
... up thither from the city to enjoy the surpassing beauty of the prospect . The green hill sides were now visited for a very different object ; ladies of the highest rank might be seen cutting up 8 Materials and Models.
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John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin. ladies of the highest rank might be seen cutting up every plant which it was possible to turn to food , and bearing home the common weeds of our road sides as a most precious treasure . The French ...
John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin. ladies of the highest rank might be seen cutting up every plant which it was possible to turn to food , and bearing home the common weeds of our road sides as a most precious treasure . The French ...
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... seen in splendid array ; and the British soldiers con- templated with admiration their noble antagonists . Two hundred and fifty guns , stretched along the crest of the ridge in front , with matches lighted and equipment complete , gave ...
... seen in splendid array ; and the British soldiers con- templated with admiration their noble antagonists . Two hundred and fifty guns , stretched along the crest of the ridge in front , with matches lighted and equipment complete , gave ...
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... seen the horses stung into fury , dashing from their masters and gallop- ing over the plain ; the elephants with their trunks raised in the air , their broad ears flapping like sails , and their tails scourging their sides , rushing ...
... seen the horses stung into fury , dashing from their masters and gallop- ing over the plain ; the elephants with their trunks raised in the air , their broad ears flapping like sails , and their tails scourging their sides , rushing ...
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... seen the soldiers rolling on the ground to crush their tormentors , or tearing off their armour in agony . And within an hour the tents and the scattered helmets , and shields of the flying , were the only traces of the great army that ...
... seen the soldiers rolling on the ground to crush their tormentors , or tearing off their armour in agony . And within an hour the tents and the scattered helmets , and shields of the flying , were the only traces of the great army that ...
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Page 245 - The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Page 168 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Page 324 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 167 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 187 - We fear God ; we look up with awe to kings ; with affection to parliaments ; with duty to magistrates ; with reverence to priests ; and with respect to nobility...
Page 303 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a Master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 310 - Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public.— What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished.'— Preface, p.
Page 337 - I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived, I and my friends, to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age, or drop, like mellow fruit, as they say, into the grave.
Page 168 - ... for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated...
Page 139 - ... all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked much of the inconsistency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories — but the history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, answered and refuted her.