 ... the whole design was defeated by the premature death of Alaric, which fixed, after a short illness, the fatal term of his conquests. The ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valor and fortune they celebrated...  A Book of Ballads on German History - Page 93by Wilhelm Wagner - 1877 - 154 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 672 pages
...of the transports ; their courage was daunted by the terrors of a new element ; and the whole design was defeated by the premature death of Alaric, which...term of his conquests. The ferocious character of the Bariarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...my attention to the description of the funeral of Alaric, King of the Goths, as given by Gibbon :— "The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valour and fortitude they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude, they forcibly... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...attention to the description of the funeral of Alaric, King of the Goths, as given by Gibbon : — "The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valour and fortitude they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude, they forcibly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1880 - 728 pages
...the whole design was defeated by the premature death of Alaric, which fixed, after a short illuess, the fatal term of his conquests. The ferocious character...barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude they... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1881 - 578 pages
...of Alaric, which fixed, after a short illncu, the fatal term of his conA I.AKIC IN ITAL Y. quests. The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hern, whose valor and fortune they ceiebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude,... | |
 | Thomas Burr Sikes - 1885 - 336 pages
...the great conqueror, not, however, before he had three times besieged and taken the city of Eome. " The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valour and fortunes they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour of a captive multitude they forcibly... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1887 - 516 pages
...passage in Gibbon's " Decline and Fall," where the burial of Alaric the Goth is thus described: — "The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valour and fortitude they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour of a captive multitude they forcibly... | |
 | Christopher Perren - Sermons - 1889 - 442 pages
...the Goth, having sacked Rome, was preparing to invade Sicily when he suddenly died. Gibbon says, " The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude, they... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1890 - 368 pages
...defeated by his premature death at Cosenza. " Theferocious character of the barbarians," says Gibbon, " was displayed in the funeral of a hero •whose valour...fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By l the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Buseutinus. The royal... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - Naples (Italy) - 1894 - 442 pages
...impossible, and afforded him a burial such as no other hero is known to have had. Gibbon says : — " The ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero whose valor and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labor of a captive multitude, they... | |
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