The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion, Band 2Whiting and Watson; John Forbes, printer, 1812 |
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... Messenia . He burns again to behold the shores of Greece ; it is there that the daughter of Homer dwells ; it is there that he expects to satisfy at once both his love for Cymodocea , and his hatred against the Christians . But he ...
... Messenia . He burns again to behold the shores of Greece ; it is there that the daughter of Homer dwells ; it is there that he expects to satisfy at once both his love for Cymodocea , and his hatred against the Christians . But he ...
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... Messenia ! Cymodocea advanced involuntarily towards the place where the son of Lasthenes had finished the relation of his story . As the tender fawn of the Pyrenees which , after reposing during the day with the shepherd in the bosom of ...
... Messenia ! Cymodocea advanced involuntarily towards the place where the son of Lasthenes had finished the relation of his story . As the tender fawn of the Pyrenees which , after reposing during the day with the shepherd in the bosom of ...
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... Messenia . There might be seen mothers folding their children in their arms , festivals suspended as in a time of public calami- ty , the church in mourning , even the very Pagans filled with terror : such is the effect of the appear ...
... Messenia . There might be seen mothers folding their children in their arms , festivals suspended as in a time of public calami- ty , the church in mourning , even the very Pagans filled with terror : such is the effect of the appear ...
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... ferocious answer of which was , that the safety of Messenia depended upon the sacrifice of a virgin drawn by lot from the family upon the throne . The fatal urn was away to bring us in our turn to these solitary BOOK XIV. ...
... ferocious answer of which was , that the safety of Messenia depended upon the sacrifice of a virgin drawn by lot from the family upon the throne . The fatal urn was away to bring us in our turn to these solitary BOOK XIV. ...
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... Messenia , in vain shall I seek thee in the woods of the temple ! No longer shall I hear thy sweet voice resounding amongst the choirs of the sacrifices ; no more wilt thou present me with the new barley or the sacred knife ; I shall ...
... Messenia , in vain shall I seek thee in the woods of the temple ! No longer shall I hear thy sweet voice resounding amongst the choirs of the sacrifices ; no more wilt thou present me with the new barley or the sacred knife ; I shall ...
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Achaia Æneid altar ancient Angel appeared Armorica arms arrived Astarte Athens Barbarians beauty behold bishop blood bosom Cæsar capitol Carausius catechumen celebrated Christians church Constantine covered cries Cymodocea Cyrillus Dæmon daughter of Homer death Demodocus descended desert Dioclesian divine Dorotheus Druidess Druids earth Egypt Emperor empire endeavoured eternal Eudorus exclaimed eyes Faithful father favour fear feet festival forests Galerius gates Gauls gods Greece grotto hand happiness head heart heaven Hierocles holy honour illustrious Jesus Christ Jupiter Lacedæmon Lasthenes martyr ment Messenia modocea mountains Muses night palace Plutarch priest of Homer prince pro-consul Ptolemy religion Rhedones Roman Rome ruins sacred sacrifice saluted sand says Segenax senate Sephora shore soldiers son of Lasthenes soon soul spouse summit Taygetus tears tempest temple Teutates thee Thermæ thou tomb Velleda victory virgin virtue voice warrior waves whilst wind words worship youth
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Seite 135 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 133 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Seite 42 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Seite 133 - His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad: She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waved As the vine curls her tendrils, which implied Subjection, but required with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best received Yielded, with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
Seite 75 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Seite 85 - Egyptian plain (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to the wars...
Seite 181 - The rites and institutions, by which the Greeks, Romans, and other nations, had formerly testified their religious veneration for fictitious deities, were now adopted, with some slight alterations, by Christian bishops, and employed in the service of the true God.
Seite 182 - Hence it happened, that in these times, the religion of the Greeks and Romans differed very little, in its external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers," processions," lustrations, images, gold and silver vases, and many such circumstances of pageantry, were equally to be seen in the heathen temples and the Christian churches.