Numa Pompilius: Second King of RomeTicknor, Reed & Fields, 1850 - 279 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... speaking , and they wept together . Soon he resumed his narration . “ I sought a nurse to animate your frail existence , for you seemed at birth to be unwilling to survive your misfortunes , You uttered most piercing cries , and your ...
... speaking , and they wept together . Soon he resumed his narration . “ I sought a nurse to animate your frail existence , for you seemed at birth to be unwilling to survive your misfortunes , You uttered most piercing cries , and your ...
Pagina 18
... speak to you in the austere language of my time of life , and paint pleasure in false and frightful colors . No , my son , pleasure has charms , and nature attracts us to them . We must resist this by perpetual combat , and the more ...
... speak to you in the austere language of my time of life , and paint pleasure in false and frightful colors . No , my son , pleasure has charms , and nature attracts us to them . We must resist this by perpetual combat , and the more ...
Pagina 19
... speaking , they had reached the entrance of the consecrated wood . It was here that Tullus was to take leave of Numa . The chariot stopped , and the eyes of the young man were filled with tears . Courage , " said Tullus , “ courage ...
... speaking , they had reached the entrance of the consecrated wood . It was here that Tullus was to take leave of Numa . The chariot stopped , and the eyes of the young man were filled with tears . Courage , " said Tullus , “ courage ...
Pagina 22
... Speak , let me know what you desire most ; it shall be granted to you at once . " " O , " cried Numa , without hesitancy , " let Tullus re- new his age ; let him commence life anew , and never let him 99 " Your demand is beyond my power ...
... Speak , let me know what you desire most ; it shall be granted to you at once . " " O , " cried Numa , without hesitancy , " let Tullus re- new his age ; let him commence life anew , and never let him 99 " Your demand is beyond my power ...
Pagina 28
... Speak not of obedience , " said Tatius ; " I have been king all my life , and have never known the pleasure of commanding . I early knew that we must renounce being loved if we would be feared , and I preferred friends to slaves ...
... Speak not of obedience , " said Tatius ; " I have been king all my life , and have never known the pleasure of commanding . I early knew that we must renounce being loved if we would be feared , and I preferred friends to slaves ...
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Anna Apennines arms army Aulus beautiful blood brave breast buckler cabin called Camilla camp Ceres chariot citizens conquered consecrated courage courser cries crown danger daughter dear death defend divinity earth Egeria embraced enemies eyes father fear flocks frightful fury give glory goddess gods grief hand happy hastens head heard heart heaven Hernici hero Hersilia Hirpini honor immortals inspired javelin Jupiter king of Campania king of Rome knees leave live look Marrucini Marsi Metius midst monarch mortal mother mountains Myrtale never NUMA POMPILIUS Numa's nymph Oromaze palace passed peace Pentheus Pompilius priests prince of Capua reign replied Romans Romulus Sabines sacred sacrifice Samnites scarcely seizes sentiment soldiers soon Sophanor soul speak succor sweet sword Tatia Tatius tears temple tender throne trembling Tullus Tullus Hostilius Vestini victory virtue voice Volsci vows warriors weep words young Zoroaster
Populaire passages
Pagina 181 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Pagina 207 - The nympholepsy of some fond despair ; Or, it might be, a beauty of the earth, Who found a more than common votary there Too much adoring ; whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.
Pagina 181 - Were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still. It is not while beauty and youth are...
Pagina 199 - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Pagina 269 - Astraea ; but the wickedness and impiety of mankind drove her to heaven in the brazen and iron ages, and she was placed among the constellations of the zodiac, under the name of Virgo.
Pagina 250 - Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form cither of man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being : during the first hundred and seventy years, they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding.
Pagina 199 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like...
Pagina 271 - The general, when he began to turn his chariot from the forum to the Capitol, ordered the captive kings and leaders of the enemy to be led to prison, and there to be slain, but not always ; and when he reached the Capitol, he used to wait till he heard that these savage orders were executed.
Pagina 219 - It was an ancient tradition, that when the Capitol was founded by one of the Roman kings, the god Terminus (who presided over boundaries, and was represented, according to the fashion of that age, by a large stone) alone, among all the inferior deities, refused to yield his place to Jupitei Himself.
Pagina 275 - She was supposed to be the same as the Isis of the Egyptians, whose worship was introduced into Greece with that of Osiris, under the name of Apollo. The Artemisia was a festival celebrated in honor of her at Delphi.