Back comes the Chief in triumph. Who, in the hour of fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails. Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 251by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1922 - 270 pages
...fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, 765 Through billows and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails.Wherefore they washed their horses In Vesta's holy well, 77* Wherefore they rode to Vesta's door,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1924 - 784 pages
...show.' 2. ' Devouring seas have washed thee from my sight, No time shall raze thee from my memory.' 3. ' Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales, If once the great Brethren Sit shining on the sails.' 4. ' Good talk is dramatic ; it is like an piece . •/»•,/?/'... | |
| Ernest Edward Kellett - Folklore - 1927 - 290 pages
...As these stars, they are saviours from the sea : so Macaulay says : " Safe comes the ship to harbour Through billows and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on her sails " — a natural development from the phosphorescence which so often accompanies the end of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1928 - 204 pages
...Chief in triumph, Who, in the hour of fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and...the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails. Wherefore they washed their horses In Vesta's holy well, Wherefore they rode to Vesta's door, I know,... | |
| Art - 1911 - 1380 pages
...was Castor and Pollux." EDITORIAL MAY SYMBOLISM " Safe comes the ship to haven, Thru billows and thru gales, If once the great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails." The illustration on page 831 gives a German interpretation of the Heavenly Twins ; that on page 759... | |
| William Tyler Olcott - 1996 - 608 pages
...brotherly love by giving them power over wind and wave, that they might assist the shipwrecked. Safe conies the ship to Haven Through billows and through gales, If once the great Twin Brethren Set shining on the sails. Macaulay. In the Argonautic expedition, during a violent storm, it is said... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...chief in triumph Who in the hour of fight Hath seen the great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and...the great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails. CHAPTER 2 I Bacchus; Ariadne BACCHUS Bacchus was the son of Jupiter and Semele. Juno, to gratify her... | |
| David Charles Douglas, George Malcolm Young, W. D. Handcock - Great Britain - 1996 - 1050 pages
...seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through tempests and through gales, If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on its sails." I ask hon. Gentlemen opposite, with whom it rests whether this alliance shall take effect... | |
| Philip Gardiner - Comics & Graphic Novels - 2002 - 314 pages
...Castor and Pollux, who are represented as riding upon white horses. Of Castor and Pollux, Macaulay said, 'Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and...the great Twin Brethren, Sit shining on the sails.' Tacitus records that in Northern Europe, snow white horses were reared at the expense of the public... | |
| Talfourd Ely - History - 2003 - 338 pages
...rank, yet the Romans soon learned that the twin gods were no less the guardians of shipmen at sea : — "Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and...If once the great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails."4 1 Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome . " lb. ' Ib. * lb. This explains how Horace in his beautiful... | |
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