Ruins of Ancient Cities: With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition, 2. kötetHarper & brothers, 1841 |
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15. oldal
... walls of Messene , built of hewn stone , crown- . ed with battlements and flanked with towers , were stronger and higher than those of Byzantium , Rhodes , or any city of Greece , and included within their cir- cuit Mount Ithome . It ...
... walls of Messene , built of hewn stone , crown- . ed with battlements and flanked with towers , were stronger and higher than those of Byzantium , Rhodes , or any city of Greece , and included within their cir- cuit Mount Ithome . It ...
18. oldal
... wall . There are the remains also of a stadium and a theatre , one of the smallest in Greece , while masses of fine walls and heaps of stones are scattered here and there , overgrown and nearly concealed by large trees and luxuriant ...
... wall . There are the remains also of a stadium and a theatre , one of the smallest in Greece , while masses of fine walls and heaps of stones are scattered here and there , overgrown and nearly concealed by large trees and luxuriant ...
19. oldal
... walls of Troy . This was B.C. 1184 ; and the present ruins are supposed to be those of the city , as it existed be- fore that time . Perseus translated the seat of his kingdom from Argos to Mycenæ ; and the kings who reigned there after ...
... walls of Troy . This was B.C. 1184 ; and the present ruins are supposed to be those of the city , as it existed be- fore that time . Perseus translated the seat of his kingdom from Argos to Mycenæ ; and the kings who reigned there after ...
21. oldal
... walls of Mycena resembles the Cyclopean walls of Tiryns , a place about seven miles to the south , which are apparently nothing more than huge masses of unwrought stone , placed one above another , with the interstices filled up by ...
... walls of Mycena resembles the Cyclopean walls of Tiryns , a place about seven miles to the south , which are apparently nothing more than huge masses of unwrought stone , placed one above another , with the interstices filled up by ...
22. oldal
... walls consist of huge unhewn masses of stone , of such a size , and so fitted and adapted to each oth- er , as to have given rise to an opinion that the power of man was unequal to the labour of building them . One of the first things ...
... walls consist of huge unhewn masses of stone , of such a size , and so fitted and adapted to each oth- er , as to have given rise to an opinion that the power of man was unequal to the labour of building them . One of the first things ...
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42. oldal - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown . For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
261. oldal - Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
260. oldal - And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
36. oldal - Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God : yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
256. oldal - SEE the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears ! With nodding arches, broken temples spread, The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
149. oldal - And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them ; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau ; for the Lord hath spoken it.
149. oldal - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
356. oldal - And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD : it shall not be treasured nor laid up ; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
213. oldal - There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave.
41. oldal - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.