The World's Progress ...W.B. Conkey Company, 1913 |
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Aeschylus ancient Apollo Araspes army Athenians Athens barbarians battle beauty birds brought called Callimachus Carthage Carthaginian Chorus comedy command consuls Corinth crown Cyrus Daphnis dear death deities Demosthenes divine earth enemy Euripides eyes fair fate father fear fell fire friends gave give Gobryas goddess gods Greater Dionysia Greece Greek hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven Hellenes Hephæstus Hermes honor horse Isocrates Italy Jove king Lacedæmonians land live look mighty mortal mother mountain nature never o'er orator peace Phidias philosopher Plato plays pleasure poet possessed praise Praxiteles Prometheus Protagoras Pylos reign Roman Rome round sacred Samnites senate sent Socrates soldiers Sophocles soul speak Streps tears tell temple Thebes thee Theocritus Theodota thine things thou thought tion woman words Xenophon youth Zeus
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Стр. 412 - But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. "Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?
Стр. 415 - Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day!" So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back. Plunged headlong in the tide.
Стр. 413 - The Three stood calm and silent. And looked upon the foes. And a great shout of laughter From all the vanguard rose : And forth three chiefs came spurring Before that deep array; To earth they sprang, their swords they drew, And lifted high their shields, and flew To win the narrow way...
Стр. 412 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Стр. 412 - There be thirty chosen prophets. The wisest of the land, Who alway by Lars Porsena Both morn and evening stand : Evening and morn the Thirty Have turned the verses o'er. Traced from the right* on linen white By mighty seers of yore.
Стр. 416 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home, And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
Стр. 414 - Now welcome, welcome, Sextus ! Now welcome to thy home ! Why dost thou stay, and turn away ? Here lies the road to Rome.
Стр. 415 - Curse on him!" quoth false Sextus; "Will not the villain drown? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town!" "Heaven help him!" quoth Lars Porsena, "And bring him safe to shore ; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
Стр. 130 - Then he turned to us, and added with a smile: "I cannot make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates who has been talking and conducting the argument; he fancies that I am the other Socrates whom he will soon see, a dead body — and he asks, How shall he bury me?
Стр. 412 - Now, from the rock Tarpeian Could the wan burghers spy The line of blazing villages Red in the midnight sky. The Fathers of the City, They sat all night and day, For every hour some horseman came With tidings of dismay.