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...a novelist, his chief power lay in his descriptive faculties, which are evident in this novel as he pictures the Egyptian desert and the ancient city Alexandria. Hypatia, 1st published in 1853, is set in 5th Century A.D. Egypt. It centers upon a young orphan monk from a desert monastery who feels called to continue his religious life in the city. He discovers a sister, who...

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...ed him into the foyer that was formed in the shape of a rotunda. Huge Greek and Roman stat­ ues were perched in predesigned recesses around the circu... ... as soon as he en­ tered the enormous room, which he compared to the Library at Alexandria, a wave of pure adrenaline surged through him. He was now... ...d she wanted to know why. Her and Pierce's relationship had been friendly, even roman­ tic, if you could call sex in the afternoon in his connubial o... ...even roman­ tic, if you could call sex in the afternoon in his connubial office romantic. She had confessed to herself an animal magnetism for Pierc... ... LIE POLICE HAD left hours ago. Aaron Matloch just sat, quiet­ ly, alone in his Alexandrian Library staring, emotionless, into the flames of his Ita...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts,...

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...HE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CONDITION of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been suffic... ...s not been repeated; neither has Cæsar. Ubi Cæsar, ibi Roma—was a maxim of Roman jurisprudence. And the same maxim may be translated into a wider mean... ...4 The Cæsars ished and expired together. The illimitable attributes of the Roman prince, boundless and comprehensive as the univer- sal air,—like that... ...butes, so impressive to the imagination, and which all the subtlety of the Roman* wit could as little fathom as the fleets of Cæsar could traverse the... ...uering empire. It is false to say, that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness. Peace, hollow rhetoricians! Until Cæsar came, Rome was a m... ...which 71 Thomas de Quincey settled the very lees and dregs of the vicious Alexandria. Such extreme changes would falsify all that we know of human na... ...es of Rome, Sicily and Egypt, were the seats of continued distractions; in Alexandria, the second city of the empire, there was even a civil war which...

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...r, according to others again, to Ascanius, Aeneas’s son. Some tell us that Romanus, the son of Ulysses and Circe, built it; some, Romus the son of Ema... ...emember what a poet fortune sometimes shows herself, and consider that the Roman power would hardly have reached so high a pitch without a divinely or... ...us came to him, that then he did, indeed, see twelve. Hence it is that the Romans, in their divinations from birds, chiefly regard the 42 V olume One... ... up Romulus. Celer upon this fled instantly into Tuscany, and from him the Romans call all men that are swift of foot Celeres; and because Quintus Met... ...niversally agreed to have been the twenty-first of April, and that day the Romans annually keep holy, calling it their country’s birthday. At first, t... ...s vessels; but he himself narrowly escaping, made a magnificent entry into Alexandria. The whole fleet, a compliment due only to royalty, met him in f...

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...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...devotion of one man has been the saving of an army. Such, according to old Roman story, was the feat of Horatius Cocles. It was in the year B.C. 507, ... ...ver That rolls by the walls of Rome: ‘O Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman’s life, a Roman’s arms Take thou in charge this day.’... ...oved and honored by his fellow citizens, that in the time of a famine each Roman, to the number of 300,000, brought him a day’s food, lest he should s... ...he degenerate Knights of St. john from their rock of Malta, and sailed for Alexandria in Egypt, in the latter end of June, 1798. His intentions had no... ...ench, whom he guessed to be on the way to Egypt; he arrived at the port of Alexandria on the 28th of June, and saw its blue waters 213 Yo n g e and f... ... thick haze, which concealed each fleet from the other, and had arrived at Alexandria on the 1st of July, three days after he had left it! Every sail ... ...edience to commands, though they had not been able to enter the harbour of Alexandria. Large rewards had been offered to any pilot who would take them...

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...) (Second Attendant:) SCENE: In several parts of the Roman empire. ACT I SCENE I: Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA s palace. ... ... Attendant:) SCENE: In several parts of the Roman empire. ACT I SCENE I: Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA s palace. [Enter DEMET... ...IAN: No, madam. CLEOPATRA: He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus! DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: Madam? CLEOP... ...ds; But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian, How this Herculean Roman does become The carriage of his chafe. MARK ANTONY: I ll leave you, ... ... know, It is not Caesar s natural vice to hate Our great competitor: from Alexandria This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes The lamps of ni... ... not, sir; I knew it for my bond. [Exeunt.] SCENE V: Alexandria. CLEOPATRA s palace. [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARD... ...ALEXAS: Good friend, quoth he, Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot, To me... ...t. OCTAVIUS CAESAR: I wrote to you When rioting in Alexandria; you Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts Did gibe my missi... ...That moved pale Cassius to conspire; and what Made the all-honor d, honest Roman, Brutus, With the arm d rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom, To dre...

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... the Persian acinacæ, but more curved, and for all the world most like the Roman sickles or sicæ.’ It is per- fectly magnificent, gentlemen, to hear t... ...l- derness, that Festus himself was obliged to march against them with the Roman legionary force.” Upon which Toad-in-the-hole, that cursed interrupte... ...to pieces in the desert. Heavens, gentle- men, what a sublime picture! The Roman legions—the wil- derness—Jerusalem in the distance—an army of murdere... ...ce to the earliest work of antediluvian art. Father Mersenne, that learned Roman Catholic, in page one thousand four hun- dred and thirty-one 1 of hi... ...act; re infectâ. For these he wanted linen ban- dages. But, unhappily, the Romans wore woollen, on which account they bathed so often. Meantime, there... ...citizen. Hence it was that Hadrian was so astonished with the spectacle of Alexandria, “civitas opulenta, fæcunda, in qua nemo vivat otiosus.” Here fi... ...ratis. The prodigious spectacle (so it seemed to Hadrian) was exhibited in Alexandria, of all men earning their bread in the sweat of their brow. In R...

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...tellus, the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a str... ...served under Caepio, when the Cimbri and T eutones invaded Gaul; where the Romans fight- ing unsuccessfully , and being put to flight, he was wounded ... ... death and destruction to all, when it was no small piece of service for a Roman soldier to keep his ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook... ...as sent into Spain, having the command of a thousand men under Didius, the Roman gen- eral, and wintered in the country of the Celtiberians, in the ci... ... aid by night to the Gyrisoenians, their near neighbors, who fell upon the Romans in their lodg- ings and slew a great number of them. Sertorius, with... ...iad in it. This is attested by many credible authors, and if what those of Alexandria tell us, relying upon 197 Plutarch’s Lives the authority of Her... ...f their tribute to all the people of the province of Asia. When he came to Alexandria, where Pompey was already murdered, he would not look upon Theod... ...e left Cleopatra queen of Egypt, who soon after had a son by him, whom the Alexandrians called Caesarion, and then departed for Syria. Thence he passe... ... answer from Cyprus. In the meantime, Ptolemy, king of Egypt, who had left Alexandria, upon some quarrel between him and his sub- jects, and was saili...

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...isite for them, with the best cheer, and that no dainty be spared, for the Romans be great lords, and though their message please me not nor my court,... ...ested us and have been idle, and now I hope ye shall make sharp war on the Romans, where I doubt not we shall get honour. I believe well, said Arthur,... ...I How the kings and lords promised to King Arthur aid and help against the Romans. T hen answered King Anguish of Scotland, Sir, ye ought of right to ... ...stendom, of knighthood nor of dignity, and I counsel you never to obey the Romans, for when they reigned on us they distressed our elders, and put thi... ...will that ye return unto your lord and Procuror of the Common Weal for the Romans, and say ye to him, Of his demand and commandment I set nothing, and... ...e knights unto these countries fol- lowing: first to Ambage and Arrage, to Alexandria, to India, to Armenia, whereas the river of Euphrates runneth in... ... Duke Joshua and Maccabaeus were of our lineage. I am right inheri- tor of Alexandria and Africa, and all the out isles, yet will I believe on thy Lor...

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...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...heological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two greatest expense; and the Roman reproach was sometimes true of a Hebrew family, that its whole estate... ...es, is no more than the outer- most row of the Oriental necklace. Philo of Alexandria, and the other Arabian poets, give us some idea of the importanc... ... of the throat and bosom after the Christian era, we learn from Clement of Alexandria. That zealous father, so intolerant of supersti- tious mummery u... ... satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a German Journal, that the Greek and Roman ladies knew nothing of that modern appendage to the pocket, 8 howeve...

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...sible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, however, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary stand... ...n a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to... ... there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus.” And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact ... ...sed them towards listening. Meantime, so far as I am acquainted with these Roman Catholic demurs, the difference between them and my own is broad. The... ...th- out suspecting any subtle, fraudulent purpose, simply recoil from the romantic air of such a statement—which builds up, as with an enchanter’s wa... ... into an art and a tactical system of imbrices and bombi, (as they were at Alexandria, and after- wards at the Neapolitan and Roman theatres,) that th...

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...ne would rid him of Arminius by poison: this was the most potent enemy the Romans had, who had defeated them so ignominiously under Varus, and who alo... ...ent in his own house, imprisoned and killed him. Justice required that the Romans should have satisfaction for this offence; but there was a difficult... ... but the profit of the augmentation of the public revenue, that served the Roman Senate for a pretence to the foul conclu- sion I am going to relate, ... ...discreet as to evade this tor- menting and unprofitable knowledge: and the Romans had a custom, when returning from any expedition, to send home befor... ...be drawn in a coach by lions, and a singing wench with him. [Cytheris, the Roman courtezan.—Plutarch’s Life of Antony, c. 3. This, was the same person... ..., that Vespasian, by the favour of the god Serapis, cured a blind woman at Alexandria by anointing her eyes with his spittle, and I know not what othe...

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... fond of tariffs. “A tariff!” said I to the consul, feeling that the whole romance of my expedition would be dissipated by such an arrangement. “Then ... ... the world for the present, and shall take the next steamer from Jaffa for Alexandria. I shall only have one night in Jerusalem on my return.” After t... ...l in Egypt, I can answer for nothing.” He said that he expected letters at Alexandria which would govern his future movements. I thought he seemed sad... ...t he had hampered himself with some woman, and that she was to meet him at Alexandria. Poor fellow! thought I. But his unhappiness was not of that kin... ... not understand the Christian religion,” he said, being himself a Latin or Roman Catholic. At the tail of the line we encountered two Bedouins, who we... ...w you would assist me.” “If it be in my power, I will.” “Before we part at Alexandria I will endeavour to tell 26 A Ride Across Palestine you the sto... ...a, before he can be on your track again.” “I will tell you all about it at Alexandria,” he replied; and then he scrambled up again with his horse, and...

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...en. I know she was loaded with cotton, and that she took in her freight at Alexandria from Pastret’s warehouse, and at Smyrna from Pascal’s; that is a... ...antes, mate on board the three- master the Pharaon, trading in cotton with Alexandria and Smyrna, and belonging to Morrel & Son, of Marseilles.” “Befo... ... some accident, — he read: — “This treasure, which may amount to two... of Roman crowns in the most distant a... of the second opening wh... declare t... ...s of the Holy See, and Caesar Spada, one of the noblest and richest of the Roman nobility; both felt the high honor of such a favor from the pope. The... ... and his famous bre- viary. All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have a... ...ots, gold, money, …know of the existence of this treasure, which …lions of Roman crowns, and which he …ck from the small …ings have been made …ngle in... ... existence of this treasure, which may amount to nearly two mil...lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro...ck from ... ...gnor Aladdin; it is hashish — the purest and most unadulterated hashish of Alexandria, — the hashish of Abou-Gor, the celebrated maker, the only man, ...

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...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...l Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlightened Roman Catho- lic, supposing only that he were not a Papist, would have give... ...ative and Miscellaneous Essays.” 13 Thomas de Quincey everywhere pass for romances, if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to fact... ...appeared that this artless young rustic, who had never heard of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vices of Londo... .... Amongst the Greek fathers, one might be unusually learned, as Clement of Alexandria; and another might be reputed unusually eloquent, as Gregory Naz... ... of encouragement from the state; whilst in the great capitals of Rome and Alexandria, where the Jews were hated and neutralized politically by Pagan ... ...about 404 to 420 A. D.) first witnessed those uproars of ruin in Egypt and Alexandria—fire racing along the old carious timbers, battering-rams thunde...

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...The history of Europe is the history of the victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. Every ascendant monarch in Europe up to the last, 10 The Wor... ...s silenced—of his kindred. Such a man again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundred years before it... ...k how long that beauti- 92 The World Set Free ful old life lasted. In the Roman times and long ages before ever the rumour of the Romans had come int... ... official mis- tress, for his semi-barbaric court was arranged on the best romantic models. His tactics were ably seconded by Doctor Pestovitch, his c... ... massive white metal inkpots and antiquated sandboxes natural to a new but romantic monarchy. It was the king’s council chamber and about it now, in a... ... pity in that crew of Godless, Vivisecting Prigs?’ cried this last king of romance. ‘Do you think, Pestovitch, they understand anything of a high ambi... ... march of science had scarcely begun…. Nineveh, Babylon, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, these were the first rough ex- periments in association that ma...

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...flights, does not identify a principle with a man, thus the people saw the personification of the Republic in the two stern figures of the brothers De... ... Dort to Mons began to talk of Mynheer van Baerle’s tulips; and his beds, pits, drying-rooms, and drawers of bulbs were visited, as the galleries and ... ...Mynheer van Baerle’s tulips; and his beds, pits, drying-rooms, and drawers of bulbs were visited, as the galleries and libraries of Alexandria were by... ...Waal and the Meuse, — V an Baerle’s letter would have fallen into his hands and not the nurse’s: in which event the poor prisoner, like the 97 Dumas ... ...y money before I should be able to move it.” “And you did not want that?” “I said, ‘Nay, as long as I can make the sign of the cross with that arm’ (G... ...out a tinge of irony. Cornelius reflected for a moment; he evidently was strug- gling against some vehement desire. “No!” he cried at last, with the s...

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...omp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-nosed emperor, in a Roman habit, waving his bronze baton on his broad-flanked brazen charger. W... ...f the 13 Thackeray time. Who can respect a simpering ninny, grinning in a Roman dress and a full-bottomed wig, who is made to pass off for a hero? or... ...town. Some of our party went to a Spanish venta, as a more con- venient or romantic place of residence than an English house; others made choice of th... ...is the only building about the Rock which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protesta... ...twinkling white houses of the opposite shore. Then the place becomes quite romantic:it is too dark to see the dust on the dried leaves; the cannon-bal... ... the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s Service. CHAPTER XIV: FROM JAFFA TO ALEXANDRIA [From the Providor’s Log-book.] BILL OF FARE, OCTOBER 12TH. Mull... ... were just at the port’s mouth—and could see the tow- ers and buildings of Alexandria rising purple against the sun- set, when the report of a gun cam... ...gaze on it with pyramidal wonder and hieroglyphic awe. The landing quay at Alexandria is like the dockyard quay at Portsmouth:with a few score of brow... ...entative, who protects his fellow-countrymen from a second floor. But that Alexandrian two-pair-front of a Consulate was more welcome and cheering tha...

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...e lines which he laid down. The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art. But I do not propose to deal with... ... legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life. The incidents of the legend become... ... was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible,... ...iters who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures of romance as pat- *This was described in Christie’s catalogue as follows: “A ... ...ousand, and whether they paid promptly or otherwise. To me it was all very romantic. It gave me an intimate sense of being a member of some mystic bro... ...perhaps ten years later that one morn- ing on board ship, about to land at Alexandria, I was bidden to line up with the other passengers for the docto... ...ons of surprise on either side, hearing that I meant to spend the night in Alexandria, he asked me to dine with him at the English Club. When we met a... ...ondon and his appointment at St. Thomas’s. One morning the tramp docked at Alexandria, and from the deck he looked at the city , white in the sunlight... ...nd there and then, in a minute, that he would live the rest of his life in Alexandria. He had no great difficulty in leaving the ship, and in twenty-f...

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...r example, to trace how Christianity drifted into the consciousness of the Roman world. But when a re- ligion has been interrogated it has always had ... ... trois, the T rinity, which the wranglings and disputes of the worthies of Alexandria and Syria declared to be God. We pray to one single understandin... ..., expound or recommend. He treated them as negligible. It was left for the Alexandrians, for Alexander, for little, red- haired, busy, wire-pulling At... ... as the He- brew Jehovah, proliferated, perhaps under the influence of the Alexandrian Serapeum, into the Christian Trinity and who became also the Mo... ... make marriage into a mystical sacrament, and, with some excep- tions, the Roman communion exacts the sacrifice of celi- bacy from its priesthood, reg... ...back into religious feel- ing. Amongst the sex-tormented priesthood of the Roman communion in particular, ignorant of the extreme practices of the Ess... ...re. “The Origin of Species” was for countless minds the discovery of a new romance in life. The contrast of the individual life and this specific life... ....” His is an extremely interesting case. He is a writer who was formerly a Roman Catholic priest, and in his 54 God The Invisible King reaction from ... ...ia of patrician mansions on the Palatine and the Pincian, in the Museum at Alexandria, and the schools which Omar Khayyam frequented, in the straw-str...