The works of lord Byron, containing Werner, Heaven and earth, Morgante maggiore, Age of bronze, Island, Vision of judgment and Deformed transformed |
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... Cæsar's deeds outdone ! Alas ! why past he too the Rubicon ? The Rubicon of man's awakened rights , To herd with vulgar kings and parasites ; Egypt ! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose , And ...
... Cæsar's deeds outdone ! Alas ! why past he too the Rubicon ? The Rubicon of man's awakened rights , To herd with vulgar kings and parasites ; Egypt ! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose , And ...
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... Cæsar , Europe's Hannibal , Without their decent dignity of fall . Yet Vanity herself had better taught A surer path even to the fame he sought , By pointing out on history's fruitless page Ten thousand conquerors for a single sage ...
... Cæsar , Europe's Hannibal , Without their decent dignity of fall . Yet Vanity herself had better taught A surer path even to the fame he sought , By pointing out on history's fruitless page Ten thousand conquerors for a single sage ...
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... Cæsar's deeds and Cæsar's fame Done for the earth ? We feel them in our shame : The gory sanction of his glory stains 320 The rust which tyrants cherish on our chains . Though Glory , Nature , Reason , Freedom , bid Roused millions do ...
... Cæsar's deeds and Cæsar's fame Done for the earth ? We feel them in our shame : The gory sanction of his glory stains 320 The rust which tyrants cherish on our chains . Though Glory , Nature , Reason , Freedom , bid Roused millions do ...
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... Cæsar's school , " Take the worst pupil ; and produce a reign " More drench'd with gore , more cumber'd with the slain ! XLV . " He ever warr'd with freedom and the free : " Nations as men , home subjects , foreign foes , " So that they ...
... Cæsar's school , " Take the worst pupil ; and produce a reign " More drench'd with gore , more cumber'd with the slain ! XLV . " He ever warr'd with freedom and the free : " Nations as men , home subjects , foreign foes , " So that they ...
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... Cæsar . Let him pass ; His aspect may be fair , but suits me not . STRANGER . Then you are far more difficult to please Than Cato's sister , or than Brutus ' mother , Or Cleopatra at sixteen - an age When love is not less in the eye ...
... Cæsar . Let him pass ; His aspect may be fair , but suits me not . STRANGER . Then you are far more difficult to please Than Cato's sister , or than Brutus ' mother , Or Cleopatra at sixteen - an age When love is not less in the eye ...
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