Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome: To which is Prefixed an Introduction to the Study of Roman History ...Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1853 - 399 страници |
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Страница 359 - A crown ! what is it ? It is to bear the miseries of a people ! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care ! To have your best success ascribed to fortune, And fortune's failures all...
Страница 46 - This triumph lasted three days. On the first, which was scarcely long enough for the sight, were to be seen the statues, pictures, and colossal images which were taken from the enemy, drawn upon two hundred and fifty chariots.
Страница 274 - Such were the honours paid to Augustus, whose power began in the slaughter, and terminated in the happiness of his subjects ; so that it was said of him, " That " it had been good for mankind if he had never been " born, or if he never had died.
Страница 25 - Augustus himself boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Страница 214 - ... short, as if by general consent, and halted in the midst of their career. A terrible pause ensued, in which both armies continued to gaze upon each other with mutual terror and dreadful serenity.
Страница 21 - The first great ancestor obtain'd his grace, And still his love descends on all the race: For Priam now, and Priam's faithless kind, At length are odious to the all-seeing mind; On great ^Eneas shall devolve the reign, And sons succeeding sons the lasting line sustain.
Страница 295 - began his reign with the general approbation of mankind. He appeared just, liberal, and humane : when a warrant for the execution of a criminal was brought him to be signed, he was heard to cry out, with seeming concern, " Would to heaven that I had never learned to write !" But as he increased in years, his crimes seemed to increase in equal proportion.
Страница 330 - POOR little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together? And dost thou prune thy trembling wing ; To take thy flight thou know'st not whither? 2 Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly Lies all neglected, all forgot ; And pensive, wavering, melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what!
Страница 221 - permit me to share in this honor also ; among all the miseries of my exile, it will be my last sad comfort that I have been able to assist at the funeral of my old commander, and touch the body of the bravest general that ever Rome produced.
Страница 215 - Pompey's troops upon the flank : this charge the enemy withstood for some time with great bravery, till he brought up his third line, which had had not yet engaged.