 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 410 pages
...funeral of this hero. By the labour of a captive multitude they diverted the course of the Busentius, a small river that washes the walls of Consentia : the royal sepulchre, adorned with the spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; and the stream being suffered to return... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 460 pages
...ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed, in the funeral of a hero, whose valour, and fortune, they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the * For the perfect description of the Streights of Messina, Scylla, Cbarybdis, &c. see Cluverius (Ital.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 458 pages
...the actual face of the oonntrV; c HA p. the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls X \ v" I of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils, and trophies, of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their natural channel ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 446 pages
...ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed, in the funeral of a hero, whose valour, and fortune, they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the ° For the perfect description of the Straits of Messina, Scylla, Chary bdis, &c. see Cluverius, (Ital.... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1819 - 268 pages
...ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 528 pages
...applause. By the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentirtus, a small river that washes the walls of Consentia....sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their natural channel ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed, in the funeral of a hero, whose valour, and fortune, they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...adorned with the splendid spoils, and trophies, of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; the waters were then restored to their natural channel; and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 542 pages
...ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed, in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour...the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls m The prostrate south to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles, and her golden fields : With grim... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 400 pages
...the funeral of a hero, whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude they forcibly diverted the...sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 pages
...ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful .applause. By the labour...river that washes the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulehre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed... | |
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The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour of a captive multitude they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river... 
