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" His body was solemnly exposed in the midst of the plain, under a silken pavilion ; and the chosen squadrons of the Huns, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chanted a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious in his life, invincible in his death,... "
Beowulf: An Old English Epic (the Earliest Epic of the Germanic Race) - Page 197
1908 - 216 pages
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“The” History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1781 - 392 pages
...and die chofen fquadrons of the Huns, wheeling round in meafured evolutions, chaunted a funeral fong to the memory of a hero, glorious in his life, invincible in his death, the father of his people, the fcourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world. According to their national cuftom, the Barbarians...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 446 pages
...which, instead of finding a passage through the nostrils, regurgitated into the lungs and stomach. His body was solemnly exposed in the midst of the...scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world. According to their national custom, the Barbarians cut off a part of their hair, gashed their faces...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 448 pages
...which, instead of finding a passage through the nostrils, regurgitated into the lungs and stomach. His body was solemnly exposed in the midst of the...in his life, invincible in his death, the father of hig people, the scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world. According to their national custom,...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 430 pages
...lungs and stomach. His body was solemnly exposed in the midst of the' plain, under a silken pavillion, and the chosen squadrons of the Huns, wheeling round...in his death, the father of his people, the scourge out a murmur, the bed which is destined for her blooming rival. But in royal families, the daughters...
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Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr ..., Volume 3

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...which, instead of finding a passage through the nostrils, regurgitated into the lungs and stomach. His body was solemnly exposed in the midst of the...scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world. According to their national * The picture of Raphael is in the Vatican; the basso (or perhaps the alto)...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 4

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 542 pages
...pavilion ; and XXXv- the chosen squadrons of the Huns, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chaunted a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious in...scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world. According to their national custom, the barbarians cut off a part of their hair, gashed their faces...
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Family Records: Containing Memoirs of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K. B ...

Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 272 pages
...silken pavilion ; and the chosen squadrons of the Huns, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chaunted a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious in...invincible in his death, the father of his people, the sconrge of his enemies, and the terror of the world." t The monument itself is not yet finished ; we...
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Family Records: Containing Memoirs of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K. B ...

Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 250 pages
...silken pavilion ; and the chosen squadrons of the Huns, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chauntcd a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious in his life, invincible iu his death, the father of his people, the scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world." t...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 2

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 486 pages
...exposed in the midst of the plain, under a silken pavilion ; and the chosen squadrons of the Hun.-; wheeling round in measured evolutions, chanted a funeral...scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world. According to their national custom, the Barbarians cut off a part of their hair, gashed their faces...
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The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K. B., ...

Isaac Brock - Canada - 1845 - 492 pages
...silken pavilion ; and the chosen squadrons of the Huns, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chaunted a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious in...scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world.'' t The monument itself is not yet finished ; we shall therefore defer our description of the edifice...
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