Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close breath of the cloister, here spent the noon and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild parental sway, and stood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly nurture, heirs... Harper's Atlas of American History - Seite 113von Dixon Ryan Fox - 1920 - 164 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1864 - 622 Seiten
...gleamed in the shades of the forest, priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close...and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild paternal sway, and stood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly nature, heirs... | |
| William James Anderson, Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, Middleton & Dawson - 1867 - 102 Seiten
...gleamed in the shades of the forest^ priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close...and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild paternal sway, and stood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly nature, heirs... | |
| Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1870 - 40 Seiten
...gleamed in the shade of its forests; priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close...and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild, parental sway, and stood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of a courtly nurture,... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1871 - 470 Seiten
...gleamed in the shade of its forests, priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close breath of the cloister, here spent the noou and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild, parental sway, and stood serene before... | |
| james r. osgood and company - 1875 - 382 Seiten
...When we awake its departed shades, they rise upon us from their graves, in strange romantic guise. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close...and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild paternal sway, and stood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly natures, heirs... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - 1875 - 366 Seiten
...When we awake its departed shades, they rise upon us from their graves, in strange romantic guise. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close...and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild paternal sway, and EtooU serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly natures, heirs... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1880 - 506 Seiten
...gleamed in the shade of its forests, priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close...and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild, parental sway, and stood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly nurture,... | |
| Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1882 - 572 Seiten
...gleamed in the shade of its forests ; priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close breath of the cloister, here spent tho noon and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild, parental sway, and stood serene... | |
| 1883 - 420 Seiten
...When we awake its departed shades, they rise upon ns from their graves, in strange romantic guise. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close...cloister, here spent the noon and evening of their livee. ruled savage hordes with a mild paternal sway, and stood кrene hefore the direst shapes of... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - 1888 - 396 Seiten
...When we awake its departed shades, they rise upon ns from their graves, in strange romantic guise. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close...and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild paternal sway, and etood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly natures, heirs... | |
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