A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 էջ |
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... Romans , called it Libya . The two names ( like those of Europe and Asia , ) were at first applied only to portions of the continent ; Libya referring alone to the little territory of Barca , opposite to Greece , ( where the colony of ...
... Romans , called it Libya . The two names ( like those of Europe and Asia , ) were at first applied only to portions of the continent ; Libya referring alone to the little territory of Barca , opposite to Greece , ( where the colony of ...
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... Romans , in the less mountainous part of the country , and towards the frontiers of England , lay a number of other tribes , who were frequently conquered by the Romans , though they never remained long in a state of subjection : they ...
... Romans , in the less mountainous part of the country , and towards the frontiers of England , lay a number of other tribes , who were frequently conquered by the Romans , though they never remained long in a state of subjection : they ...
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... Romans in Britain commenced with his invasion of it , B. c . 55 , and continued till A. D. 409 , when they completely abandoned the island . It cost them many years to reduce England ; but the progress of their armies was effectually ...
... Romans in Britain commenced with his invasion of it , B. c . 55 , and continued till A. D. 409 , when they completely abandoned the island . It cost them many years to reduce England ; but the progress of their armies was effectually ...
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... Romans in a very early pe- riod , from the trade in tin or white lead having been here carried on between the Gauls and the inhabitants of the Cassiterides . 3. The Atrebatii , a colony of the Gallic Atrebates , were W. of the Regni ...
... Romans in a very early pe- riod , from the trade in tin or white lead having been here carried on between the Gauls and the inhabitants of the Cassiterides . 3. The Atrebatii , a colony of the Gallic Atrebates , were W. of the Regni ...
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... Romans establish- ed in Britain , and contained a theatre , and a temple dedicated to Claudius ; it was destroyed in the war between Boadicea 28 and 28 Sometimes called Boudicea , and Bonduca ; thus , Spenser : Whiles Romanes daily did ...
... Romans establish- ed in Britain , and contained a theatre , and a temple dedicated to Claudius ; it was destroyed in the war between Boadicea 28 and 28 Sometimes called Boudicea , and Bonduca ; thus , Spenser : Whiles Romanes daily did ...
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A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography: For the Use of Eton School Aaron Arrowsmith Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1839 |
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Էջ 17 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Էջ 498 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Էջ 567 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Էջ 73 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Էջ 2 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Էջ 516 - First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol.
Էջ xxii - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Էջ 2 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Էջ 561 - Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry...
Էջ 6 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...