Whittaker's Improved Edition of Pinnock's Goldsmith's History of Rome:: To which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Study of Roman History. A Variety of Valuable Information on the Manners, Institutions, and Antiquities of the Romans, is Added Throughout the Work; with Numerous Biographical and Historical Notes; a Dictionary, Explaining the Most Difficult Words, at the Beginning, and Questions for Examination at the End of Each Section |
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... Gracchus SECTION II . Slaughter of Caius Gracchus and his adherents CHAPTER XVIII . 192 .... 197 From the sedition of Gracchus to the perpetual Dictatorship of Sylla . SECTION I. The Jugurthine and Social wars 201 SECTION II . The cruel ...
... Gracchus SECTION II . Slaughter of Caius Gracchus and his adherents CHAPTER XVIII . 192 .... 197 From the sedition of Gracchus to the perpetual Dictatorship of Sylla . SECTION I. The Jugurthine and Social wars 201 SECTION II . The cruel ...
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... Gracchus , the elder of the two , was , both for the advantages of his person and the quali- ties of his mind , very different from Scipio , of whom He was the grandson . He seemed more ambitious of power than desirous of glory ; his ...
... Gracchus , the elder of the two , was , both for the advantages of his person and the quali- ties of his mind , very different from Scipio , of whom He was the grandson . He seemed more ambitious of power than desirous of glory ; his ...
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... Gracchus in the Capitol . 11. Here , as a clamour was raised by the clients of the great on one side , and by the favourers of the law on the other , Gracchus found his speech entirely interrupted , and begged in vain to be attended to ...
... Gracchus in the Capitol . 11. Here , as a clamour was raised by the clients of the great on one side , and by the favourers of the law on the other , Gracchus found his speech entirely interrupted , and begged in vain to be attended to ...
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... Gracchus was but twenty - one upon the death of Tiberius his brother ; and as he was too young to be much dreaded by ... Gracchus . 20. This the senate treated with contempt , as coming from ignorant barbarians ; which so inflamed the ...
... Gracchus was but twenty - one upon the death of Tiberius his brother ; and as he was too young to be much dreaded by ... Gracchus . 20. This the senate treated with contempt , as coming from ignorant barbarians ; which so inflamed the ...
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... Gracchus , by these means , being grown not only popular , but powerful , was become an object at which the senate aimed all their resentment . 27./But he soon found the populace a faithless and unsteady support . They be- gan to ...
... Gracchus , by these means , being grown not only popular , but powerful , was become an object at which the senate aimed all their resentment . 27./But he soon found the populace a faithless and unsteady support . They be- gan to ...
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Page 49 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 49 - He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay. There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother- — he their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday...
Page 446 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 49 - Were with his heart, and that was far away : He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday — All this rushed with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire...
Page xv - Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood, and drink the tears of thy distress...
Page 279 - You do not, cannot; you have been his ruin. Who made him cheap at Rome, but Cleopatra? Who made him scorned abroad, but Cleopatra? At Actium, who betrayed him? Cleopatra.
Page 261 - Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is aweary of the world ; Hated by one he loves ; braved by his brother...
Page 406 - 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...
Page 369 - ANIMULA ! vagula, blandula, Hospes, comesque, corporis, Quae nunc abibis in- loca — Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nee, ut soles, dabis jocos...
Page 43 - Perseus himself was scarce regarded as he went along, whilst pity had fixed the eyes of the Romans upon the infants, and many of them could not forbear tears : all beheld the sight with a mixture of sorrow and joy, until the children were past.