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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...de thy currents, Po! Beneath its guidance, in their prime of days Scipio and Pompey triumph’d; and that hill, Under whose summit thou didst see the li...

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Life of Cicero, Vol. II, The

By: Anthony Trollope

... second volume of two covers his last years, BC 57-43 and the personal and political upheavals that surrounded them: the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, the death of his daughter Tullia, Caesar's dictatorship and assassination, Cicero's antagonism against Antony in the Philippics and his final struggle for the republic. Having used Cicero's letters and speeches to gui...

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Caesar and Cleopatra

By: George Bernard Shaw

...riven Cleopatra into Syria, and how we of Egypt should deal with the Roman Pompey, newly come to our shores after his defeat by Caesar at Pharsalia. W... ...aesar is coming also in hot pursuit of his foe, and that Ptolemy has slain Pompey, whose severed head he holds in readiness to present to the conquero... ...y be defeated again. A few weeks ago Caesar was flying for his life before Pompey: a few months hence he may be flying for his life before Cato and Ju... ...esar came hither in pursuit of his foe. Did we shelter his foe? LUCIUS. As Pompey’s foot touched the Egyptian shore, his head fell by the stroke of my... ...ucius Septimius: is it not so? LUCIUS. It is so. With this hand, that slew Pompey, I placed his head at the feet of Caesar. CAESAR. Murderer! So would... ... the feet of Caesar. CAESAR. Murderer! So would you have slain Caesar, had Pompey been victorious at Pharsalia. LUCIUS. Woe to the vanquished, Caesar!... ...torious at Pharsalia. LUCIUS. Woe to the vanquished, Caesar! When I served Pompey, I slew as good men as he, only because he con- quered them. His tur... ...us, pardon me: why should the slayer of Vercingetorix rebuke the slayer of Pompey? You are free to go with the rest. Or stay if you will: I will find ... ...s with his fists.) But harken, Theodotus, teacher of kings: you who valued Pompey’s head no more than a shepherd values an onion, and who now kneel to...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... Iliacae ,” &c. v. 125. Julia.] The daughter of Julius Caesar, and wife of Pompey. v. 126. The Soldan fierce.] Saladin or Salaheddin, the rival of... ...orceress, according to Lucan, Pharsal. l. vi. was employed by Sextus, son of Pompey the Great, to conjure up a spirit, who should inform him of the is... ...On Sextus and on Pyrrhus.] Sextus either the son of Tarquin the Proud, or of Pompey the Great: or as Vellutelli conjectures, Sextus Claudius Nero, an...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 3 Paradise

By: Dante Aligheri

...cks from which thou, Po, glidest. Be- neath it, in their youth, Scipio and Pompey triumphed, and to that hill beneath which thou wast born, it seemed ... ...ougie) on the African coast. 24 When the fleet of Caesar defeated that of Pompey with its contingent of vessels and soldiers of Marseilles, B. C. 49....

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... Iliacae ,” &c. v. 125. Julia.] The daughter of Julius Caesar, and wife of Pompey. v. 126. The Soldan fierce.] Saladin or Salaheddin, the rival of... ...orceress, according to Lucan, Pharsal. l. vi. was employed by Sextus, son of Pompey the Great, to conjure up a spirit, who should inform him of the is... ...On Sextus and on Pyrrhus.] Sextus either the son of Tarquin the Proud, or of Pompey the Great: or as Vellutelli conjectures, Sextus Claudius Nero, an... ... and hastened on to the attack of Afranius and Petreius, the generals of Pompey, at Ilerda (Lerida) in Spain. v. 118. abbot.] Alberto, abbot of ... ...de thy currents, Po! Beneath its guidance, in their prime of days Scipio and Pompey triumph’d; and that hill, Under whose summit thou didst see the li...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...lose of the abbey, and extolled him for his valour above Camillus, Scipio, Pompey, Caesar, and Themistocles. Then Gargantua desired that he might be p... ...ed wine when himself did both eat and drink of the best. Julius Caesar and Pompey were boat-wrights and tighters of ships. Valentine and Orson did ser... ... invocation of Erictho, 395 Rabelais a certain defunct person foretold to Pompey the whole progress and issue of the fatal battle fought in the Phars... ... subjection. On the other hand, see how, by the signification of one word, Pompey fell into despair. Being overcome by Caesar at the battle of Pharsal... ...erry sayings of Cicero. During the more than civil wars between Caesar and Pompey , though he was much courted by the first, he naturally leaned more ... ...ow one and then another, and be very free of his cutting jests; so some of Pompey’s cap- tains, playing the good fellows to show their assurance, told... ... Greek, to Athens; Alexander to Alexandria; Constantine to Constantinople; Pompey to Pompeiopolis in Cilicia; Adrian to Adrianople; Canaan, to the Can... ...Gargantua & Pantagruel ephants joined together, wherein he was imitated by Pompey the Great at Rome in his African triumph. The good Bacchus was seen ... ...f-dog. No, I’d not have, upon my life, Great Alexander for my wife, Nor Pompey, nor his dad-in-law, Who did each other clapperclaw. Not the best ...

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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

...ters of state, the story of Titus Livius, though it extolled that part which Pompey held, was not therefore suppressed by Octavius Caesar of the other...

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

...n the war on the western front. The reasons for believing in the murder of Pompey are the same as the reasons for believing in the raising of Lazarus....

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e Plebs to the factions of the Gracchi, of Marius and Sylla, of Caesar and Pompey; in all the [Greek text}‚ of the Grecian repub- lics,—the contest co... ...n the contest of Caesar with the oligarchic knav- ery of Cicero, Cato, and Pompey, no possible exercise of rep- resentative functions (had the people ...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321

... and hastened on to the attack of Afranius and Petreius, the generals of Pompey, at Ilerda (Lerida) in Spain. v. 118. abbot.] Alberto, abbot of ...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

...because it is not discernible in that state to belong more to the name man, or Caesar, than to the name baboon, or Pompey: which are supposed to stand... ...n, or Caesar; i.e. that it belongs to those names; and that it is sufficiently distinguish- able from a baboon, or Pompey; i.e. from the ideas sig- ni... ...e lived in it a man, called Julius Caesar; that he was a general, and that he won a battle against another, called Pompey. This, though in the nature ...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...ear, Against whose roots breaketh the brackish wave Where Jove his temple, Pompey hath his grave: XVI Then Damiata next, where they behold How to the ...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

... from which thou glidest; Beneath it triumphed while they yet were young Pompey and Scipio, and to the hill Beneath which thou wast born it bitter...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

... intended to write. In this excursion I was attended by one negro—servant, Pompey, and my little lap-dog Diana, whom I had brought with me from Philad... ...esting animal which rendered her a favorite with all. 59 V olume Four And Pompey, my negro!—sweet Pompey! how shall I ever forget thee? I had taken P... ...good overcoat. It was well cut. It was well made. The coat was nearly new. Pompey held it up out of the dirt with both hands. There were three persons... ...ula. I thus formed the third of the party. There was the poodle. There was Pompey. There was myself. We were three. Thus it is said there were origi- ... ...ty—Medita- tion, Memory, and Fiddling. Leaning upon the arm of the gallant Pompey, and attended at a respectable distance by Diana, I proceeded down o... ... up and round and up, until I could not help surmising, with the sagacious Pompey, upon whose supporting arm I leaned in all the confi- dence of early... ...na—I say that I could not be mistaken— Diana smelt a rat! At once I called Pompey’s attention to the subject, and he—he agreed with me. There was then... ...t a sum of human happiness or misery depends! I thought of myself, then of Pompey, and then of the mysterious and inexplicable des- tiny which surroun... ...he mysterious and inexplicable des- tiny which surrounded us. I thought of Pompey! —alas, I thought of love! I thought of my many false steps which ha...

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...or devout preachers of patience and humility. Marius and Sylla, Caesar and Pompey, Anthony and Augustus, did not draw 27 V oltaire their swords and s... ...ter of Cato is, in my opinion, vastly superior to that of Cornelia in the “Pompey” of Corneille, for Cato is great without any- thing like fustian, an...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...h watch, being sunrise; and the idolaters, in fulfilment of the promise of Pompey, should be awaiting us with the lambs for the sacrifices.” Simeon, A... ...Thou forgettest, however, Ben-Levi,” replied Abel-Phittim, “that the Roman Pompey, who is now impiously besieging the city of the Most High, has no as...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...ear, Against whose roots breaketh the brackish wave Where Jove his temple, Pompey hath his grave: XVI Then Damiata next, where they behold How to the ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...e kind of chuckle, which lasted for about half a minute, said,— “Paws off, Pompey! Y ou young hangdog, you—egad, yes, aha! ‘pon honour, you’re a lad o...

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