Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1899 - English literature |
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... feet of goats . So many of the Scythian tribes came westward with the Greeks , as shown from Scytho - Tauric names of settlements alternat- ing with Greek names along the coast of the Mediterranean and that as far west as Massilia and ...
... feet of goats . So many of the Scythian tribes came westward with the Greeks , as shown from Scytho - Tauric names of settlements alternat- ing with Greek names along the coast of the Mediterranean and that as far west as Massilia and ...
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... near Oxford , where in an arable field a raised but level line of earth , at and over ten feet in width , crosses the field ; and here local information tells you was a " Roman way , " though it is 46 PLACE NAMES IN AND AROUND ROME , ETC.
... near Oxford , where in an arable field a raised but level line of earth , at and over ten feet in width , crosses the field ; and here local information tells you was a " Roman way , " though it is 46 PLACE NAMES IN AND AROUND ROME , ETC.
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... feet . Such roads are common in the neighbourhood of Etrus- can cities ; several other instances occur around Veii . " " In this case part of the polygonal pave- ment is remaining with its kerbstones , and the ruts . worn by the ancient ...
... feet . Such roads are common in the neighbourhood of Etrus- can cities ; several other instances occur around Veii . " " In this case part of the polygonal pave- ment is remaining with its kerbstones , and the ruts . worn by the ancient ...
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... feet , and from being unused remains with its original Etrurian features unaltered . It was the way to ancient Tibur ( the modern Tivoli ) prior to the agger of Servius Tullius . Etruscans formerly occupied the Caelian Hill , but on the ...
... feet , and from being unused remains with its original Etrurian features unaltered . It was the way to ancient Tibur ( the modern Tivoli ) prior to the agger of Servius Tullius . Etruscans formerly occupied the Caelian Hill , but on the ...
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... feet in height , marked certain ways and places . Mr. Dennis says of Ovietto , a place I have also very minutely examined , " On this ridge or by its side stood a stela or cippus of stone ; they are shaped in general like a pine cone or ...
... feet in height , marked certain ways and places . Mr. Dennis says of Ovietto , a place I have also very minutely examined , " On this ridge or by its side stood a stela or cippus of stone ; they are shaped in general like a pine cone or ...
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Page 90 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days: There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere...
Page 109 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements...
Page 106 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 83 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 96 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized.
Page 222 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 97 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 91 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 106 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 37 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...