The doomed city; or, The last days of DurocinaA.R. Mowbray & Company, 1885 - 303 pages |
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Ælia Castra already amongst ancient art thou Aulus Aulus Plautius awful Basil Birinus blood Brinavis Britain Britons brother Cador Cadwallader Cæsar Cæsarius called Calleva camp captive Castra chieftain Chilterns Christian church Corinium cried Cuthwulf Cynric dear death destroying band didst thou dost thou Dromo Dubricius Durocina English entrenchments escape Eudaimon fate father fear fight fire Ford Four Towns fugitives Gallican rite gate gazed Germanus Gewissas gorge heard heart heathen Hermann hill horses hour Icknield street knew land light lord magistrate Majorian Marcella Mervan Morgan mother never night once passed Pendragon poor Præfect priest prisoner river road Roman Rowena Rudiger Saxons Severn side sister slave sound stood stream Streatley Swalcliffe sword Synodune Tadmarton Tamesis tell Thames thee thine thou art thou hast valley villa walls Wattled Town Welsh words young youth
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Page 21 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 207 - Immortal Father, heavenly, blest, Holiest of Holies, Jesus Christ our Lord ! Now we are come to the sun's hour of rest, The lights of evening around us shine ; We hymn the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit divine : Worthiest art Thou at all times to be sung With undefiled tongue, Son of our God, Giver of life alone ; Therefore, in all the world, Thy glories, Lord, we own.
Page 83 - They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
Page 167 - For indeed, to say it in a word, in those days there was no King in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes, f Such things has an august National Assembly to hear of, as it goes on regenerating France.
Page 237 - The folds shall be full of sheep : the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing.
Page 301 - Lend extends for about half a mile in length from west to east, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth from north to south. An old road passes through the site, and, two furlongs eastward of it, meets an ancient Trackway still used by the Welsh drovers as being direct and without a tollbar. The river which washes the foot of the Town Ground and Blakeland flows on to Adderbury, where, in the bed of the stream, a large ancient Bead of beautifully clear green glass, exteriorly orna(4O) See Bloiam's...
Page 302 - Britain, the country showed no sign of British or Roman life at all. The tradition both of conquerors and of conquered tells us that an utter change had taken place in the men that dwelt in it. They knew themselves only as Englishmen, and in the history or law of these English inhabitants we find as yet not a trace of the existence of a single Briton among them.1 The only people that English chronicle or code knows of as living on the conquered soil are Englishmen.
Page 302 - Rome long afterwards sought to renew its contact with it, it was as with a heathen country ; l and it was in the same way as a heathen country that it was regarded by the Christians of Ireland and by the Christians of Wales. When missionaries at last made their way into its bounds, there is no record of their having found a single Christian in the whole country. What they found was a purely heathen land ; a land where homestead and boundary and the very days of the week bore the names of new...
Page 128 - No object, in their opinion, could be more worthy his attention, nor more proper to show forth his power. Hence those pictures which are left us of him in the Icelandic mythology, where he is always meant under the name of Odin. He is there called "The terrible and severe God; the father of slaughter; he who giveth victory, and reviveth courage in the conflict; who nameth those that are to be slain.
Page 38 - What could I have done more for thee, that I have not done ? I planted thee indeed My choicest vine, and thou hast turned for Me into exceeding bitterness : thou gavest vinegar to quench My thirst, and piercedst with a lance the Side of thy SAVIOUR.