Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, المجلد 51819 |
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الصفحة 150 - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
الصفحة 189 - Nor mix'd in combat, nor in council join'd ; But wasting cares lay heavy on his mind : In his black thoughts revenge and slaughter roll, And scenes of blood rise dreadful in his soul. Twelve days were past, and now the dawning light 640 The gods had summon'd to th' Olympian height : Jove, first ascending from the watery bowers, Leads the long order of ethereal powers.
الصفحة 198 - Egypt, paid his addresses to her, and offered her a share in his throne, she refused him. During her widowhood, she lost all her children except three, one daughter, who was married to Scipio the younger, and two sons, Tiberius and Caius, whose lives we are now writing.
الصفحة 447 - She lay, and leant her cheek upon her hand, And cast a look so languishingly sweet, As if, secure of all beholders...
الصفحة 349 - As for Cicero, he was carried to Astyra, where, finding a vessel, he immediately went on board and coasted along to Circaeum with a favourable wind. The pilots were preparing immediately to sail from thence, but whether it was that he feared the sea, or had not yet given up all his hopes in Caesar, he disembarked, and travelled a hundred furlongs on foot, as if Rome had been the place of his destination.
الصفحة 446 - This awakened every dormant vice, inflamed every guilty passion, and totally extinguished the gleams of remaining virtue. It began in this manner : when he first set out on his expedition against the Parthians, he sent orders to Cleopatra to meet him in Cilicia, that she might answer some accusations which had been laid against her of assisting Cassius in the war. Dellius, who went...
الصفحة 369 - As for his tent, the enemy took it, with all the riches it contained. After Megara was taken, the soldiers prepared to plunder it ; but the Athenians interceded strongly for that people, and prevailed. Demetrius was satisfied with expelling the garrison, and declared the city free. Amidst these transactions, he bethought himself of Stilpo, a philosopher of great reputation, who sought only the retirement and tranquillity of a studious life. He sent for him, and asked him, " Whether they had taken...
الصفحة 391 - ... face, received a considerable hurt. After he had recovered himself, he stretched out his hands towards heaven, and prayed either for victory, or that he might die before he was sensible that the day was lost. When the battle was begun, Demetrius, at .the head of his best cavalry, fell upon Antiochus. the son of Seleucus, and fought with so much bravery that he put the enemy to flight ; but by a vain and unseasonable ambition to...
الصفحة 207 - ... not a Roman .who has an altar that belonged to his ancestors, or a sepulchre in which their ashes rest. The private soldiers fight and die, to advance the wealth and luxury of the great; and they are called masters of the world, while they have not a foot of ground in their possession.
الصفحة 447 - As if, secure of all beholders hearts, Neglecting she could take them : Boys, like Cupids, Stood fanning, with their painted wings, the winds That play'd about her face ! But if she smiled, A darting glory seem'd to blaze abroad, That men's desiring eyes were never wearied, But hung upon the object : To soft flutes The silver oars kept time ; and while they play'd, The hearing gave new pleasure to the sight ; And both to thought.