 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,...  Enigmas of Psychical Research - Page 97by James Hervey Hyslop - 1906 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frances Ellis Sabin - English poetry - 1927 - 444 pages
...down amain, And washed their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. 'See Star Map, Fig. 24. And straight again they mounted, And rode to Vesta's...blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more. "Battle of Lake Regillus," XXXIX, 733-752 St. Elmo's Fire The strange phosphorescent light sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1928 - 204 pages
...name or race. On rode they to the Forum, While laurel-boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they...blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more. XL And all the people trembled, And pale grew every cheek ; And Sergius the High Pontiff Alone found... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...they to the Forum, While laurel boughs and flowers, From housetops and from windows, (Left portion) Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh...blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more. . . . And Sergius the High Pontiff Alone found voice to speak : FIG. 136. CASTOR AND POLLUX CAPTURING... | |
 | Talfourd Ely - History - 2003 - 338 pages
...the tidings of victory, and watered their horses at Juturna's spring, near the temple of Vesta :— " When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...washed their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane."2 On this spot arose one of the earliest temples in a Grecian style at Rome, the jEdes Casforis.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Philosophy - 2005 - 553 pages
...name or race. On rode they to the Forum, While laurel-boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they...blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more. XL. And all the people trembled, And pale grew every cheek ; And Sergius the High Pontiff Alone found... | |
 | M. Oldfield Howey - Animals, Mythical - 1923 - 262 pages
...name or race. On rode they to the Forum, While laurel boughs and flowers, From house tops and from windows. Fell on their crests in showers. When they...blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more. Mommsen says that this legend " bears a stamp thoroughly unRoman, and was beyond doubt at a very early... | |
 | Education - 1870 - 476 pages
...the Romans. Who first announced it at Rome ? The Gods. What became of them ? In the city, — ''• " When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...blast away they passed, And no man saw them more." We will make a" circle in the city of Rome and mark it Temple of Vesta. What was afterward erected... | |
 | Catholic University of America - 1909 - 866 pages
...traditional scene of the encounter. Twin Brethren brought the news of the victory to Rome and how, " When they drew nigh to Vesta They vaulted down amain...horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane." That the nymph of this pool received worship from the time of the occupation of the neighboring hilltops... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 848 pages
...their name or race. On rode they to the Forum, While laurel-boughs and flowers, From housetops and from As on a bee shut in a crystalline — Since sorrow hath shut me safe i 182 VIRGINIA. And washed their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. And straight again... | |
 | Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2020 - 220 pages
...name or race. 740 On rode they to the Forum, While laurel-boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, 745 They vaulted down amain, And washed their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. And... | |
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