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Էջ 72 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
Էջ 30 - And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Էջ 85 - inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these little ones, ye have done it unto me...
Էջ 72 - Brutus stabbed; And as he plucked his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it, As rushing out of doors, to be...
Էջ 29 - Some were covered with the skins of wild beasts and left to be devoured by dogs, others were nailed to the cross, numbers were burnt alive, and many, covered over with inflammable matter, were lighted up when the day declined, to serve as torches during the night.
Էջ 30 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Էջ 169 - Yet further may relent : for mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. But if thou goest, I follow...
Էջ 74 - Pompey's life, in the senate house which he had erected ; and when that edifice was shut up, it was raised by order of Augustus on a double arch or gateway of marble, opposite the grand entrance of / Pompey's theatre. It was thrown down, or fell, during the convulsion of the Gothic . wars, and for many ages it lay buried in the ruins. It was at length discovered, I believe about the beginning of the seventeenth century, in a partition wall between two houses.
Էջ 38 - Vergine bella, che di sol vestita, coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole piacesti si che 'n te sua luce ascose, amor mi spinge a dir di te parole; ma non so 'ncominciar senza tu' aita e di Colui ch'amando in te si pose.
Էջ 240 - Jesus shines on them ; and never will shine so brightly as in that city which has " no need of the sun, neither of the moon; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.