Ridpath's History of the World: Being an Account of the Principal Events in the Career of the Human Race from the Beginnings of Civilization to the Present Time, Comprising the Development of Social Institutions and the Story of All Nations from Recent and Authentic Sources, Volume 2Jones brothers publishing Company, 1910 - Ethnology |
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Page 481 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 461 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old — The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 456 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 544 - The sun, the soil, but not the slave, the same ; Unchanged in all except its foreign lord, Preserves alike its bounds and boundless fame The Battle-field, where Persia's victim horde First bow'd beneath the brunt of Hellas...
Page 503 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 548 - Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie.
Page 494 - Moreover, when the eagle in his pride, With crooked talons and a leathern hide, Shall seize the black and blood-devouring snake ; Then shall the woeful tanpits quail and quake ; And mighty Jove shall give command and place, To mortals of the sausage-selling race • Unless they choose, continuing as before, To sell their sausages for evermore.
Page 373 - HISTORY OF THE WORLD • BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE CAREER OF THE HUMAN RACE FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION TO THE PRESENT TIME COMPRISING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE STORY OF ALL NATIONS FROM RECENT AND AUTHENTIC SOURCES COMPLETE IN NINE VOLUMES BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LLD.
Page 518 - We will not destroy any Amphictyonic town, nor cut it off from running water in war or peace : if any one shall do so, we will march against him and destroy his city. If any one shall plunder the property of the god, or shall be...
Page 641 - ... that the fates had decreed the empire of the world to him who should untie the knot.