 | 1828 - 496 pages
...add a very curious collection of negro tales and fables. A THEATRE DESTROYED BY FIRE AT ROME. T30ME was an ocean of flame. -•-*' Height and depth were...or surrounded and perishing in the conflagration. * * All was clamour, violent struggle, and helpless death. Men and women of the highest rank were on... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...tide. The billows burst up the sides of the hills, which they turned into instant volcanoes, exploded volumes of smoke and fire, then plunged into the depths...or surrounded and perishing in the conflagration. All was clamour, violent struggle, and helpless death. Men and woman of the highest rank were on foot,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1833 - 150 pages
...fire; then plunged into the depths in a hundred glowing cataracts, then climbed and consumed again. roar of the advancing flame, the crash of falling houses. and the hideous outcry of the myriids flying through the streets, or surrounded and perisiing in the conflagration. 4. All was clamor,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...volumes of smoke and fire; then plunged into the depths in a hundred glowing cataracts, then climb5 ed and consumed again. The distant sound of the city...flying through the streets, or surrounded and perishing 10 in the conflagration.******** All was clamor, violent struggle, and helpless death. Men and women... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...volumes of smoke and fire; then plunged into the depths in a hundred glowing cataracts, then climb5 ed and consumed again. The distant sound of the city...flying through the streets, or surrounded and perishing 10 in the conflagration. ********AI1 was clamor, violent struggle, and helpless death. Men and women... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...ends my catechism. — Shakspeare. LESSON LIX. Conflagration of an Amphitheatre at Rome. — CROLY. ROME was an ocean of flame. Height and depth were...streets, or surrounded and perishing in the conflagration All was clamor, violent struggle, and helpless death. Men and women of the highest rank were on foot,... | |
 | George Croly - 1842 - 246 pages
...endless tide. The billows burst up the sides of the hills, which they turned into instant volcano?, exploding volumes of smoke and fire; then plunged...or surrounded and perishing in the conflagration. —ow streets, and scorched by the flames over thcir heads. rolled* through the gates, like an endless... | |
 | George Croly - 1843 - 290 pages
...reached an eminence a few miles from Rome, where we breathed our horses, that I could ask to whom 1 had been indebted for my escape. But I could not extract...glory of ages, the purchase of the blood of millions ! Wat vanity made for man 1" My guide continued looking forward with intense earnestness, as if he... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1856 - 320 pages
...in a hundred glowing cataracts, then climbed 5 and consumed again. The distant sound of the city ip her convulsion went to the soul. The air was filled...flying through the streets, or surrounded and perishing 15 the narrow streets, and scorched by the flames over their heads, rolled through the gates like an... | |
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Rome was an ocean of flame. Height and depth were covered with red surges, that rolled before the blast like an endless tide. The billows burst up the sides of the hills, which they turned into instant volcanoes, exploding volumes of smoke and fire ;... 
