| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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