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... tears , threats , and entreaties would have been of no avail had she not recalled that , months before , the old Raja , in gratitude for her devoted nursing during his illness , had granted her two promises . She now demanded the ...
... tears , threats , and entreaties would have been of no avail had she not recalled that , months before , the old Raja , in gratitude for her devoted nursing during his illness , had granted her two promises . She now demanded the ...
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... tears , my power of speech that seemed to choke , With hands above my head , my fears breaking my quivering voice , I spoke : The Kshatriya Dasaratha I , O hermit sage , ' t is not thy son ! Most holy ones , unknowingly a deed of awful ...
... tears , my power of speech that seemed to choke , With hands above my head , my fears breaking my quivering voice , I spoke : The Kshatriya Dasaratha I , O hermit sage , ' t is not thy son ! Most holy ones , unknowingly a deed of awful ...
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... tears of women , weeping most to see The Princess Draupadi that lovely prize Of the great gaming , Draupadi the Bright Journeying afoot ; but she and all the five Rejoiced because their way lay heavenward . Seven were they , setting ...
... tears of women , weeping most to see The Princess Draupadi that lovely prize Of the great gaming , Draupadi the Bright Journeying afoot ; but she and all the five Rejoiced because their way lay heavenward . Seven were they , setting ...
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... tears at the recollection of her former home and husband , went down to the Scæan gates , where sat Priam and the men too old for war . When they saw bright - haired Helen they whispered among themselves that it was little wonder that ...
... tears at the recollection of her former home and husband , went down to the Scæan gates , where sat Priam and the men too old for war . When they saw bright - haired Helen they whispered among themselves that it was little wonder that ...
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... Tears and wailing filled the city as the Trojans watched the combat ; and despair fell upon them when they saw the body of Hector fastened to the chariot of Achilles and dragged thrice around the Trojan walls . From her chamber where ...
... Tears and wailing filled the city as the Trojans watched the combat ; and despair fell upon them when they saw the body of Hector fastened to the chariot of Achilles and dragged thrice around the Trojan walls . From her chamber where ...
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Achilles Æneas Æneid armor arms battle Beatrice beautiful Beowulf Bhima blood Bradamant brother Charlemagne Christian cried Dante daughter dead death deeds divine DIVINE COMEDY Draupadi earth epic eyes father fear fell fire flames fled forest Gama glory gold Greeks grief Günther Hagan hand hast hastened hath heard heart Heaven Hector Hell hero Hrothgar Iliad Ilmarinen Jerusalem Delivered Kalevala Kauravas king Kriemhild land lord Louhi Lusiad maid maiden mighty Moors mother night noble o'er Olivier Orlando Orlando Furioso palace Pallas Pandavas Paradise Paradise Lost Patroclus poem poet Pohyola prince queen rage Raja Rama Rinaldo Rogero Roland Rollánd rose Rüdeger Rustem Satan sent Siegfried slain slay slew song Song of Roland soul spake spirit steed stood story suitors sword tears Telemachus thee thou throne took Translation Trojans Troy Turnus Ulysses Vergil Wainamoinen warriors wife youth Yudhi-sthira Zerbino
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Page 377 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 377 - Hail, horrors ! hail, Infernal World ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 393 - To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill, Or where plain was, raise hill, or overlay With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke : Mules after these, camels, and dromedaries, And waggons, fraught with utensils of war, Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican with all his northern powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from whence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica.
Page 378 - If once they hear that voice, their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle when it...
Page 377 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...
Page 394 - Meroe Nilotic isle, and more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Blackmoor sea ; From the Asian kings and Parthian among these, From India, and the golden Chersonese, And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed ; From Gallia, Gades, and the British west ; Germans, and Scythians, and Sarmatians, north Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool.
Page 378 - Etrurian shades High overarched embower, or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcases And broken chariot wheels: so thick bestrewn Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. He called so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded...
Page 393 - From cold septentrion blasts ; thence in the midst Divided by a river, of whose banks On each side an imperial city stood, With towers and temples proudly elevate On seven small hills, with palaces adorned,, Porches and theatres, baths, aqueducts, Statues and trophies, and triumphal arcs, Gardens and groves, presented to his eyes...
Page 380 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 378 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.