 They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie.  Through Italy with the Poets - Page 2391908 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Armada, 1588 - 1843 - 206 pages
...through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. K 65. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough...there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie. 66. It stands in the Comitium, Plain for all folk to see ; Horatius in his harness, Halting upon one... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. 65. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough...there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie. HORATIUS. 66. It stands in the Comitium, Plain for all folk to see; Horatius in his harness, Halting... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...eniers through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough...high, And there it stands unto this day To witness if 1 lie. It stands in the Comitinm, Plain for all folk to see ; Horatius in his harness, Hulling upon... | |
 | 1843 - 862 pages
...written beneath the statue " in letters all of gold :" — " They gave him of the corn land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough...image, And set it up on high, And there it stands unto Hits Jay, To witness if I lie. " It stands in the Comitinm, Plain for all folk to see, Iloratius in... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 604 pages
...enters through tho River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night : And they made a mnlten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie. It stands... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...enters through the river gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough...unto this day To witness if I lie. It stands in the Comitium,1 Plain for all folk to see, Horatius in his harness, Halting upon one knee ; And underneath... | |
 | John Mitchell Kemble - Great Britain - 1849 - 558 pages
...the Roman Ager ought now to be familiar to every one : " They gave him of the corn-land That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ! " 1 " Geald Sone guSrtes Geata dryhten .... ofer mafrnum sealde heora gehwa;Srum hund In1senda londes... | |
 | Robert William Browne - 1851 - 418 pages
...him as much land as he could plough round in one day." They gave him of the corn-land That was the public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough...there it stands unto this day, To witness if I lie. — MACAULAY. Rome was now blockaded by the Etruscans, and began to suffer from famine. A young patrician,... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1851 - 396 pages
...imagination, the " Lays of Ancient Rome," has supposed this honor to have been commemorated in song. "They made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands, uuto this day, To witness it' I lie : It stands on the Comitium, Plain for all folks to see, Ilorutius... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...enters through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ; And they mode a molten image, And set it up on high ; And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie.... | |
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