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Page 40 - While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or...
Page 40 - Behold furrounding kings their pow'r combine, And one capitulate, and one refign ; Peace courts his hand, but fpreads her charms in vain ; " Think nothing gain'd,. he cries, till nought remain, " On Mofcow's walls till Gothic ftandards fly, " And all be mine beneath the polar fky.
Page 285 - It is said that on this occasion a number of Athenians, upon their return home, went to .Euripides, and thanked him in the most respectful manner for their obligations to his pen...
Page 160 - As the priests forbade him to approach her, and to have his house defiled with mourning, he sent her a bill of divorce, and ordered her to be carried to another house while the breath was in her body.
Page 20 - Hitherto I have regarded my blindness as a misfortune, but now, Romans, I wish I had been as deaf as I am blind ; for then I should not have heard of your shameful counsels and decrees, so ruinous to the glory of Rome.
Page 128 - And (what was most remarkable) one day when the sky was serene and clear, there was heard in it the sound of a trumpet, so shrill and mournful, that it frightened and astonished the whole city. The Tuscan sages said it portended a new race of men, and a renovation of the world.