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... famous geographer and mathe- matician Claudius Ptolemæus who flourished at Pelusium in Egypt during the reigns of the Roman emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius . He taught that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe , and ...
... famous geographer and mathe- matician Claudius Ptolemæus who flourished at Pelusium in Egypt during the reigns of the Roman emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius . He taught that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe , and ...
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... famous colony Gades , on the coast of Spain , beyond the Pillars of Hercules , and from it they made voyages to the S. W. extremity of our island ; here they procured quantities of tin , which formed such a valuable article of commerce ...
... famous colony Gades , on the coast of Spain , beyond the Pillars of Hercules , and from it they made voyages to the S. W. extremity of our island ; here they procured quantities of tin , which formed such a valuable article of commerce ...
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... famous by the well known ballad of that name , founded on an en- counter which took place at Otterburn , a . D. 1388 , between the families of Percy and Douglas . From the Cheviot Hills , a range winds to the Southward , through the ...
... famous by the well known ballad of that name , founded on an en- counter which took place at Otterburn , a . D. 1388 , between the families of Percy and Douglas . From the Cheviot Hills , a range winds to the Southward , through the ...
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... famous port of Liverpool . The R. Dee 26 rises near the town of Bala , not very far from Snowdon , and , after watering the Northern part of Wales , flows past Chester , into an estuary , which the ancients called Setela . Amongst the ...
... famous port of Liverpool . The R. Dee 26 rises near the town of Bala , not very far from Snowdon , and , after watering the Northern part of Wales , flows past Chester , into an estuary , which the ancients called Setela . Amongst the ...
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... your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high Tacit . Annal . XII . 33 , et seq . Milton , Lycidas , 51 . of the Silures , there remain to be mentioned , 88 Insula Britannica - Britannia Secunda .
... your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high Tacit . Annal . XII . 33 , et seq . Milton , Lycidas , 51 . of the Silures , there remain to be mentioned , 88 Insula Britannica - Britannia Secunda .
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adriatic Adriatic Sea Africa afterwards Alps amongst ancient Asia atque bank birth-place Boeotia Boii Britain built Cæsar called capital Carm celebrated chief city chief towns Church coast contained Danube derived it's name divided Duchy dwelled Earth East Eastern emperor Epirus Europe extended famed famous farther Gaul Germany Greece Greek hence Iapygia Illyricum inhabitants island Ital Italy king kingdom Latium latter likewise Locri longitude Lucan Macedonia Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea mentioned metropolis Mons Moon Mosia mountains mouth Noricum North Northern Ocean Ovid Palus Pannonia Pelasgi Peloponnesus peninsula population Portus possessed principal promontory province quæ Rhine rises river Roman colony Rome Samnium Saxons shores Sicily Sinus G situated South Southern Spain square miles temple territory Thessaly Thrace tribes Umbria VIII Virg West Western whence whilst whole δὲ ἐν καὶ τε τὸν
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...