The Easter Song: Being the First Epic of ChristendomTalbot Press limited, 1922 - 269 páginas |
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... rhetor , a professor at the famous Schools of Bordeaux and Toulouse , and subse- quently the appointed preceptor of a Caesar - the son of the Emperor Constantine at Constantinople ! His sister , a daughter of the Druid , became a ...
... rhetor , a professor at the famous Schools of Bordeaux and Toulouse , and subse- quently the appointed preceptor of a Caesar - the son of the Emperor Constantine at Constantinople ! His sister , a daughter of the Druid , became a ...
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... rhetor and next a professor . For thirty years he held the chair , with increasing credit . Then the Emperor Valentinian I. , aware of his great reputation , invited him to the Court at Treves , the northern capital of the Empire , to ...
... rhetor and next a professor . For thirty years he held the chair , with increasing credit . Then the Emperor Valentinian I. , aware of his great reputation , invited him to the Court at Treves , the northern capital of the Empire , to ...
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... rhetor's toga . His eloquence was a torrent rolling in its course . not mud but gold . Even more than Demosthenes he had that quality of action which Demosthenes thrice declared to be the first quality of an orator . He had a marvellous ...
... rhetor's toga . His eloquence was a torrent rolling in its course . not mud but gold . Even more than Demosthenes he had that quality of action which Demosthenes thrice declared to be the first quality of an orator . He had a marvellous ...
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... rhetor , he was not persistent in teaching . He conducted the great indictment against Numerius , Governor of the Narbonese , who was accused of pecula- tion . He was a patriot , not a courtier . Phoebicius was the aged father of Patera ...
... rhetor , he was not persistent in teaching . He conducted the great indictment against Numerius , Governor of the Narbonese , who was accused of pecula- tion . He was a patriot , not a courtier . Phoebicius was the aged father of Patera ...
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... rhetor . Nepolianus was both a grammarian and a rhetor , a man of the highest distinction . Old with a soul of youth , genial , gay , witty , pure , honey without bitterness , Ausonius said he was a sharer in his play and in his work ...
... rhetor . Nepolianus was both a grammarian and a rhetor , a man of the highest distinction . Old with a soul of youth , genial , gay , witty , pure , honey without bitterness , Ausonius said he was a sharer in his play and in his work ...
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Página 178 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view! Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Página 174 - There stand, if thou wilt stand; to stand upright Will ask thee skill. I to thy Father's house Have brought thee, and highest placed: highest is best. Now shew thy progeny; if not to stand, Cast thyself down. Safely, if Son of God; For it is written, 'He will give command Concerning thee to his Angels; in their hands They shall uplift thee, lest at any time Thou chance to dash thy foot against a stone.
Página 161 - 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...
Página 102 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Página 150 - A leper once he lost, and gained a king— Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew God's altar to disparage and displace For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn His odious offerings, and adore the gods Whom he had vanquished. After these appeared A crew who, under names of old renown— Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train— With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human.
Página 148 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Página 183 - But to nobler sights Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed, Which that false fruit, that promised clearer sight. Had bred; then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see, And from the well of life three drops instill'd.
Página 208 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the omnipotent to arms.
Página 161 - Unargued I obey: So God ordains: God is thy law, thou mine: To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
Página 176 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.