 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...  A Book of Ballads on German History - Page 93by Wilhelm Wagner - 1877 - 154 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1871 - 672 pages
...natural channel ; and the secret spot, where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was forever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners, who had been employed to execute the work."' The personal animosities and hereditary feuds of the Barbarians were suspended by the strong necessity... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1872 - 654 pages
...; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and the secret spot where the remain* Ы Alaric had been deposited was for ever concealed by...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work."— Decline and Fall of the Raman Empire, VOL T. p. 329.] HEARD ye the Gothic trumpet's blast ? The march... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1873 - 586 pages
...applause. By the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work." 4 m. before reaching Coseuza a road branches off on the rt. to Paola ou the sea-coast (p. 407). 11... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1873 - 704 pages
...waters were then restored • to their natural channel, and the secret spot where the remains of Alarle had been deposited was for ever concealed by the inhuman...the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work.1*— Dcclint and fatt of Ote Roman Empire, voL т. p. SSBO HEARD yo the Gothic trumpet's blast... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 672 pages
...natural channel ; and the secret spot, where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was forever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners, who had been employed to execute the work.139 The personal animosities and hereditary feuds of the Barbarians were suspended by the strong... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Italy, Southern - 1878 - 592 pages
...applause. By the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work." 4 m. before reaching Coseuza a road branches off on the rt. to Paola on the sea-coast (p. 407). 15... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1878 - 696 pages
...waters were then restored to their natural channel, and the secret spot where the remains of Alaric liad been deposited was for ever concealed by the inhuman...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work." — Decline and Fall of Vit Roman Empire, vol. vp 329.] HEARD ye the Gothic trumpet's blast Î The... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...their natural channel; and the secret spot where the remains of Alaric had been deposited was forever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work."— Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Dr. W. Smith's edition), vol. iv., p. 1 IS. (iawnpiat and ife Sailg fife... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...their natural channel; and the secret spot where the remains of Alaric had been deposited was forever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work."— Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Dr. W. Smith's edition), vol. iv., p. 112. dnrampM ami ifa IT is necessary... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1879 - 672 pages
...of the transports. Their courage was daunted Ijy the terrors of a new element ; and the whole design was defeated by the premature death of Alaric, which...prisoners who had been employed to execute the work." — Sec The Decline and 2'\ill of the Roman Empire, vol. vp 329.] HEARD ye the Gothic trumpet's blast... | |
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