While laurel-boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain, And washed their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. And straight again they mounted,... The Massachusetts Teacher - Página 971858Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1903 - 458 páginas
...has been kindled by Macaulay's poem, while we have read of Juturna's fountain in the stirring nnes: When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. Dionysius of Halicarnassus tells how two horsemen appeared to the Dictator Postumius at Lake Regillus,... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 544 páginas
...while laurel-boughs and flowers. From house-tops and from windows, fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, they vaulted down amain, And washed their horses in the well that springs from Vesta's fame. And straight again they mounted, and rode to Vesta's door ; Then, like a blast,... | |
| Walter Taylor Field - 1904 - 344 páginas
...their steeds at the Pool of Juturna here in the Forum, just beside the little round Temple of Vesta. " When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more." ' 1 Macaulay : " The Battle of Lake Regillus." ID; ieir ley de D. s Cicero, in the oration against... | |
| E. Burton Brown - 1904 - 272 páginas
...victory for Rome, were said to have ridden into the Forum to announce it on their milk-white steeds, and "washed their horses in the well, That springs by Vesta's fane." * Their temple was erected at the place, and the Roman knights yearly rode to it in festal array to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 174 páginas
...While laurel-boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...straight again they mounted, And rode to Vesta's door; 750 Then, like a blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more. xl And all the people trembled,... | |
| E. Burton Brown - 1905 - 278 páginas
...victory for Rome, were said to have ridden into the Forum to announce it on their milk-white steeds, and ' ' washed their horses in the well, That springs by Vesta's fane." Their temple was erected at the place, and the Roman knights yearly rode to it in festal array to sacrifice... | |
| James Hervey Hyslop - 1906 - 454 páginas
...Forum, While laurel-boughs and flowers, From housetops and windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more." The plain, unvarnished story of Plutarch and tradition has here been embellished by Macaulay's art,... | |
| 1907 - 736 páginas
...news of the Roman victory to the city, riding rapidly from the scene of the battle to the Forum. " When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane." The sites are all here to-day. Hard by — just a few steps distant — is the foundation, with a few... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 172 páginas
...While laurel boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain, And washed their horses in the well And straight again they mounted, And rode to Vesta's door ; Then, like a blast, away they passed, And... | |
| 1909 - 952 páginas
...Forum, While laurel-boughs and flowers From house tops and from windows Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta They vaulted down amain,...blast, away they passed And no man saw them more. And all the people trembled. And pale grew every cheek : And Sergius the High Pontiff Alone found voice... | |
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