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" Vesuvius flamed out in several places with much violence, which the darkness of the night contributed to render still more visible and dreadful. "
The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks - Page 296
by Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809
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Major's New code ... readers, Book 5

Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pages
...appearance of it. In the meantime the eruption from Mount Vesuvius flamed out in several places with much violence, which the darkness of the night contributed...more visible and dreadful. But my uncle, in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, assured him it was only the burning of the villages which the...
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Good Words, Volume 18

English periodicals - 1877 - 932 pages
...of it. In the meantime the i eruption from Mount Vesuvius flamed out in ^ several places with much violence, which ; the darkness of the night contributed...more visible and dreadful. But my uncle, in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, assured him it was ' only the burning of the villages, which...
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Catalogue of the museum collections

Marlborough coll, nat. hist. soc - 1880 - 152 pages
...appearance of it. In the meanwhile the eruption from mount Vesuvius flamed out in several places with much violence, which the darkness of the night contributed...more visible and dreadful. But my uncle in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, assured him it was only the burning of the villages, which...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 5

Literature - 1886 - 548 pages
...foundation. FREDERIC W. FARBAB (Archdeacon Farrar). DEATH OF PUNY THE ELDER. THE fire from Vesuvius flamed forth from several parts of the mountain with...calm the apprehensions of his friend, assured him that it was only the conflagration of the villages which the country-people had abandoned. After this...
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 1

Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...foundation. FIÎEDERIC W. FARRAB (Arcbile4icon Karrar). DEATH OF PUNY THE ELDER. THE fire from Vesuvius flamed forth from several parts of the mountain with...darkness of the night contributed to render still more С visible and dreadful. But my uncle, in order to calm the apprehensions of his friend, assured him...
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Short Studies in Nature Knowledge: An Introduction to the Science of ...

William Gee - Physical geography - 1895 - 336 pages
...Pomponianus. . . . "In the meanwhile the eruption from Mount Vesuvius flamed out in several places with much violence, which the darkness of the night contributed...more visible and dreadful. But my uncle, in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, assured him it was only the burning of the villages which the...
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 1

Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 544 pages
...foundation. FREDERIC W. FARRAR (Archdeacon Karrar). DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER. THE fire from Vesuvius flamed forth from several parts of the mountain with...calm the apprehensions of his friend, assured him that it was only the conflagration of the villages which the country -people had abandoned. After this...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 458 pages
...appearance of it. In the meanwhile the eruption from Mount Vesuvius flamed out in several places with much violence, which the darkness of the night contributed...more visible and dreadful. But my uncle, in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, assured him it was only the burning of the villages which the...
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The Lamp [ed. by T.E. Bradley]., Volume 4

Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1852 - 878 pages
...Whilst these were at supper, " the eruption from Mount Vesuvius fiamed out in several places with much violence, which the darkness of the night contributed to render still more visible and'dreadful." Plioy, however, chose not only to retire to rest, but it is also asserted that he slept,...
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Nelson's Literature Readers, Book 2

Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...appearance of it. In the meanwhile the eruption from Mount Vesuvius flamed out in several places with much violence, which the darkness of the night contributed...more visible and dreadful. But my uncle, in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, assured him it was only the burning of the villages, which...
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