 | 1832 - 618 pages
...preferable to such as these. LAMBDA. (Tn be continued.) • Ch. xlv. vol. 8, p. 130. 123 in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the polar circle, to chastise the oppressors of mankind." • The latter of these periods, indeed, cannot properly be called a sentence, as the sense... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 pages
...immortal revenge ; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the Polar circle, to chastise the oppressors of mankind.1* they always represented that conqueror oa the Uncal succeMor of Alarlc. Hane'j History of (juataTiis.... | |
 | William Balfour Winning - 1838 - 326 pages
...immortal revenge ; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the polar circle, to chastise the oppressors of mankind. This wonderful expedition of Odin, observes the historian, by deducing the enmity of the Goths... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...immortal revenge ; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the Polar circle, to chastise the oppressors of mankind.12 10 Mallet, Introduction ;i 1'Histoire du Dannemarc. 11 Mallet, c. iv. p. 55, has collected... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - 1879 - 388 pages
...immortal revenge ; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the Polar circle to chastise the oppressors of i Mallet's Northern Antiquities, pp. 79, 8o. (Bell and Daldy, 1873.) Burke records this tradition with... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1927 - 416 pages
...immortal revenge ; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the Polar circle, to chastise the oppressors of mankind. Gibbon's Roman Empire. Page 220. Even as the lightning brand, from sounding skies, With sudden... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1970 - 372 pages
...immortal revenge; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the Polar circle, to chastise the oppressors of mankind.' Gibbon appends to this passage a note which, doubtless, suggested the theme to Wordsworth.... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...immortal revenge; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the Polar circle, to chastise the oppressors of mankind" (I, 261). But a cautionary footnote, such as Gibbon often uses to bring speculation down to... | |
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... frontiers of the Asiatic Sarmatia into Sweden, with the great design of forming, in that inaccessible retreat of freedom, a religion and a people which, in some remote age, might be subservient to his immortal revenge ; when his invincible Goths,... 