 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,...  Teacher - Page 971870Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Readers - 1916 - 196 pages
...well That springs by Vesta's fane. And straight again they mounted, And rode to Vesta's door ; 750 Then, like a 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 755 Alone... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...While laurel-boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. 7*5 When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...by Vesta's fane. And straight again they mounted, 750 And rode to Vesta's door ; Then, like a blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more. 40 And... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - Folk songs, English - 1921 - 280 pages
...race. On rode they to the Forum, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...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 - 264 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Frank George Carpenter - Balkan Peninsula - 1924 - 430 pages
...Castor and Pollux washed their gory horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. And straight away they mounted, And rode to Vesta's door; Then, like...blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more. 69 Near this fountain of Juturna are the remains of the circular Temple of Vesta, where the sacred... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frances Ellis Sabin - English poetry - 1927 - 444 pages
...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,...their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. 1 See Star Map, Fig. 24. And straight again they mounted, And rode to Vesta's door ; Then, like a blast,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1928 - 204 pages
...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,...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
...boughs and flowers, From housetops and from windows, (Left portion) Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain,...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.... | |
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