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 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome: To Which Is ... William Cooke Taylor,Oliver Goldsmith,William Pinnock Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
Antony arms army Asia attempt Augustus barbarians battle became began body Brennus Brutus Cæsar Caligula called camp Carthage Carthaginians Cassius character Christians citizens Cleopa'tra command conduct conqueror conquest consequence conspiracy conspirators Constantine consuls continued Coriola'nus cruelties Danube death decemviri defeated Domi'tian east emperor enemy engagement ensued fate father favour followed forces formidable Gaul gave German'icus Goths Gracchus honour inhabitants Italy Jugurtha Julius Cæsar king laws legions length lictors Ma'rius means monarch Nero occasion offered oppose patricians peace plebeians Pompey Pompey's possessed pretence prisoner provinces punishment Pyr'rhus Questions for Examination received reign resolved Rom'ulus Roman empire Rome Sab'ines Samnites Scip'io second Punic war seemed senate sent siege slain soldiers soon Spain success Sylla Tarquin temple thousand throne Tibe'rius took town Trajan tribes tribunes triumph troops victory virtues Volsci wife
Pasajes populares
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 25 - Augustus himself boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.