Herbert's Poems: Attila, king of the Huns. 1838 |
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Common terms and phrases
accurst Aëtius Alberon Amid Ammianus Marcellinus amongst angel Aquileia arms army Attila Avares battle beauteous beneath Bleda blood breath bright brother brow Burgundian Cæsar call'd called Callimachus Candaon Christian Clodion couch dark death dread e'en earth Edecon emperor empire Engaddi evil faith fame fanes fell fiend fierce flame flood gates Gaul glorious glory gold Gothic Goths hath head heart heathen heaven Hilda Hist holy Honoria hope host Hunnish Huns Jehovah Jornandes king limbs look'd lord Lycophron Marcion Merovëus mighty monarch mortal nigh night o'er Odin Olaus Onegesius Ostrogoths pagan Palladius Pannonia pass'd plain pomp pour'd pride Priscus Pulcheria Rhuas rites Romans Rome Rome's round Sangiban says scourge Scythian seem'd sent shrine soul spirit stern Stilicho stood strength stretch'd strong sword thee Theodoric Theodosius thine thou thoughts thro throne towers town turn'd unto vale Valentinian victory virgin Visigoths voice walls wave wings youth
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Page 250 - Fatal to Rome. Treason by treason foil'd Shall strip her walls of strength, and the fell curse Of discord, fed with bloated murder, yield Her domes unto the Vandal, her bright pomp, Her wealth, her women, to barbarian force. 690 ATTILA. BOOK TWELFTH. FAIREST and loveliest of created things, By our great Author in the image form'd Of His celestial glory, and design'd To be man's solace ! undefiled by sin How much dost thou exceed all earthly shapes 5 Of beautiful, to charm the wistful eye, Bland to...
Page iv - That which I have chosen is the firm establishment of Christianity by the discomfiture of the mighty attempt of Attila to found a new Antichristian dynasty upon the wreck of the temporal power of Rome, at the end of the term of 1200 years, to which its duration had been limited by the forebodings of the heathens.
Page 201 - Who is the King of glory : it is the Lord strong and mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 355 - — a man-child, who was to contend with the dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and rule all nations with a rod of iron. This prophecy was at that time understood universally by the sincere Christians to refer to the birth of...
Page 321 - ... offices of the state, and the hopes of his son Gaudentius, who was already contracted to Eudoxia, the emperor's daughter, had raised him above the rank of a subject. The ambitious designs of which he was secretly accused, excited the fears, as well as the resentment, of Valentinian.
Page 460 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Page 125 - This is too hard For mortals to unravel, nor has He Vouchsafed a clue to man, who bade us trust To him our weakness, and we shall wake up After his likeness, and be satisfied.