The Last Days of Pompeii, Volume 1Saunders and Otley, ... Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, ... Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin., 1840 - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 474 pages |
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... than from a pa- tience under suffering never to be excelled . Ere you receive these volumes , I hope to be deep in the perusal of your forthcoming work upon " the Topography of Rome and its Vicinity . " The glance at its contents which you.
... than from a pa- tience under suffering never to be excelled . Ere you receive these volumes , I hope to be deep in the perusal of your forthcoming work upon " the Topography of Rome and its Vicinity . " The glance at its contents which you.
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... hope , that you will long have leisure and inclination for those literary pursuits to which you bring an erudi- tion so extensive ; and that they may con- tinue , as now , sometimes to beguile you from yourself , and never to divert you ...
... hope , that you will long have leisure and inclination for those literary pursuits to which you bring an erudi- tion so extensive ; and that they may con- tinue , as now , sometimes to beguile you from yourself , and never to divert you ...
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... hope , much trammelled by the repulsive dryness of mere antiquity . In this , I respectfully contend , I have in no respect ex- ceeded the fair license due to the author of a fictitious composition . * * * * * " It is true , " proceeds ...
... hope , much trammelled by the repulsive dryness of mere antiquity . In this , I respectfully contend , I have in no respect ex- ceeded the fair license due to the author of a fictitious composition . * * * * * " It is true , " proceeds ...
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... hope that I have been more fortunate than men infinitely more learned , in a work in which learning is infinitely less required . It is for this reason that I venture to believe that scholars themselves will be the most lenient of my ...
... hope that I have been more fortunate than men infinitely more learned , in a work in which learning is infinitely less required . It is for this reason that I venture to believe that scholars themselves will be the most lenient of my ...
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... hope and fear inexpressible unjaded passion ! how fiercely beautiful thou art , O Gaming ! " " Inspired - inspired ! " cried Glaucus , laughing ; " the oracle speaks poetry in Clodius . What miracle next ! " CHAPTER III . PARENTAGE OF ...
... hope and fear inexpressible unjaded passion ! how fiercely beautiful thou art , O Gaming ! " " Inspired - inspired ! " cried Glaucus , laughing ; " the oracle speaks poetry in Clodius . What miracle next ! " CHAPTER III . PARENTAGE OF ...
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ædile amidst amphitheatre answered Apæcides Arbaces arena arms Athenian baths beautiful behold beneath blind girl breast breath brow Burbo Calenus Campania canst chamber Christian Clodius cried crowd dark dead death Diomed door dost dream earth Egyptian Epicurus Eumolpus eyes face fate fear felt flowers gaze gladiator Glaucus gloom gods Greek hand hast thou hath heard heart heaven Herculaneum hour Ione Isis Julia Lepidus light lips Lydon Medon mighty Nazarene never Niger night Nydia Olinthus once Pansa passion paused peristyle pleasure Pompeians Pompeii portico prætor priest replied retiarius returned robes Roman Rome rose round Sallust seat seemed sesterces sighed slave smile soft solemn Sosia soul stood Stratonice suddenly tablinum temple Tetraides thee thermæ Thessalian thine thing thou art thou hast thou knowest thou wilt thought trembled uttered Vesuvius voice wine witch words young youth
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Page 434 - ... seemed to roll toward them, dark and rapid, like a torrent ; at the same time it cast forth from its bosom a shower of ashes mixed with vast fragments of burning stone. Over the crushing vines — over the desolate streets — over the Amphitheatre itself — far and wide — with many a mighty splash in the agitated sea — fell that awful shower!
Page 450 - These were of one deep blood-red hue of fire, which lighted up the whole atmosphere far and wide; but below, the nether part of the mountain was still dark and shrouded, save in three places, adown which flowed, serpentine and irregular,* rivers of the molten lava.
Page 78 - Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm ; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus — it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Page 444 - In some places, immense fragments of rock, hurled upon the house roofs, bore down along the streets masses of confused ruin, which yet more and more, with every hour, obstructed the way ; and, as the day advanced, the motion of the earth was more sensibly felt — the footing seemed to slide and creep — nor could chariot or litter be kept steady, even on the most level ground.
Page 434 - Then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women; the men stared at each other, but were dumb. At that moment they felt the earth shake beneath their feet; the walls of the...
Page 444 - ... blue as the most azure depth of a southern sky ; now of a livid and snake-like green, darting restlessly to and fro as the folds of an enormous serpent ; now of a lurid and intolerable crimson, gushing forth through the columns of...
Page 452 - Meanwhile Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and lone, had in vain endeavoured to regain them. In vain she raised that plaintive cry so peculiar to the blind ; it was lost amidst a thousand shrieks of more selfish terror. Again and again she returned to the spot where they had been divided...
Page xii - It is true, that I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume, much less in the more important points of language and manners.
Page 448 - CHAPTER VIII ARBACES ENCOUNTERS GLAUCUS AND IONE ADVANCING, as men grope for escape in a dungeon, lone and her lover continued their uncertain way. At the moments when the volcanic lightnings lingered over the streets, they were enabled, by that awful light, to steer and guide their progress : yet, little did the view it presented to them cheer or encourage their path. In parts, where the ashes lay dry and uncommixed with the boiling torrents, cast upward from the mountain at capricious intervals,...
Page 450 - Suddenly, as he spoke, the place became lighted with an intense and lurid glow. Bright and gigantic through the darkness, which closed around it like the walls of hell, the mountain shone — a pile of fire! Its summit seemed riven in two; or rather, above its surface there seemed to rise two monster shapes, each confronting each, as Demons contending for a World. These were of one deep blood-red hue of fire, which lighted up the whole atmosphere far and wide; but below, the nether part of the mountain...