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... Pompey in one of his magnificent houses ; Pompey observed , This is a mar- vellous fair and stately house for the summer ; but methinks it should be very cold for winter . Lucullus replied ; Do you not think me as wise as divers fools ...
... Pompey in one of his magnificent houses ; Pompey observed , This is a mar- vellous fair and stately house for the summer ; but methinks it should be very cold for winter . Lucullus replied ; Do you not think me as wise as divers fools ...
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... Pompey , that idol of the historian , he has all of our love , but none of our faith ; a charming figure from Nature's chisel , resting on a pedestal of clay . - In the same year Demosthenes was honoured at Athens with a statue , on the ...
... Pompey , that idol of the historian , he has all of our love , but none of our faith ; a charming figure from Nature's chisel , resting on a pedestal of clay . - In the same year Demosthenes was honoured at Athens with a statue , on the ...
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... . Rich- mond . Richard Gough , 1809.Wormley . Dr. Arthur Young , 1820 . For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable d . 743 . and the next ages . - Lord Bacon's Births . Thomas Rowe . Deaths . Pompey fled among XX . FEBRUARY .
... . Rich- mond . Richard Gough , 1809.Wormley . Dr. Arthur Young , 1820 . For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable d . 743 . and the next ages . - Lord Bacon's Births . Thomas Rowe . Deaths . Pompey fled among XX . FEBRUARY .
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... Pompey fled among the Egyp- tian slaves , to save his life , after loss of empire and liberty : Cæsar chose to die once rather than live in fear of dying : Cato to die , rather than outlive the liberties of his country , or sub- mit to ...
... Pompey fled among the Egyp- tian slaves , to save his life , after loss of empire and liberty : Cæsar chose to die once rather than live in fear of dying : Cato to die , rather than outlive the liberties of his country , or sub- mit to ...
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... POMPEY THE GREAT is elected , and declared by the Interrex , sole Con- sul , B. C , 52. “ Any government , ” said Cato on this occasion , " " is preferable to anarchy ; and no man is better qualified than Pompey to hold the reins of the ...
... POMPEY THE GREAT is elected , and declared by the Interrex , sole Con- sul , B. C , 52. “ Any government , ” said Cato on this occasion , " " is preferable to anarchy ; and no man is better qualified than Pompey to hold the reins of the ...
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Page xx - The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page xv - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page iv - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page ii - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page xxi - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least...
Page ix - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page xiv - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since have pointed unto, your Grace being not ignorant of my suspicion therein. But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise...