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... in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antino...

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... standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the stair- case) in the ... ...ing the reader into that state of feeling which is experienced oftenest at Rome. It is a vague sense of pon- derous remembrances; a perception of such... ...d lovely shapes, which have been dug up out of the deep grave in which old Rome lies buried. And still, the realization of the antique Faun, in the pe... ...od a figure such as may often be encountered in the streets and piazzas of Rome, and nowhere else. He looked as if he might just have stepped out of a... ...erated unfavorably as regarded her reception in soci- ety, anywhere but in Rome. The truth was, that nobody knew anything about Miriam, either for goo... ...ds and a fourth individual; it was a young Italian, who, casually visiting Rome, had been attracted by the beauty which Miriam possessed in a remarkab... ...osition in which we find Miriam some few months after her establishment at Rome. It must be added, however, that the world did not permit her to hide ... ...at he was telling, “but the first that went astray here was a pagan of old Rome, who hid himself in order to spy out and betray the blessed saints, wh... ... the guide with that high and hard Italian cry, which makes the streets of Rome so resonant; and Hilda with her slender scream, piercing farther than ...

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... in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antino...

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... standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the stair- case) in the ... ...ing the reader into that state of feeling which is experienced oftenest at Rome. It is a vague sense of pon- derous remembrances; a perception of such... ...d lovely shapes, which have been dug up out of the deep grave in which old Rome lies buried. And still, the realization of the antique Faun, in the pe... ...od a figure such as may often be encountered in the streets and piazzas of Rome, and nowhere else. He looked as if he might just have stepped out of a... ...erated unfavorably as regarded her reception in soci- ety, anywhere but in Rome. The truth was, that nobody knew anything about Miriam, either for goo... ...ds and a fourth individual; it was a young Italian, who, casually visiting Rome, had been attracted by the beauty which Miriam possessed in a remarkab... ...osition in which we find Miriam some few months after her establishment at Rome. It must be added, however, that the world did not permit her to hide ... ...at he was telling, “but the first that went astray here was a pagan of old Rome, who hid himself in order to spy out and betray the blessed saints, wh... ... the guide with that high and hard Italian cry, which makes the streets of Rome so resonant; and Hilda with her slender scream, piercing farther than ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. Rome. A street. [Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners.] FLAVIUS: Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a laboring day without ...

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...) (First Soldier:) (Second Soldier:) (Third Soldier:) (Messenger:) SCENE: Rome: the neighborhood of Sardis: the neighborhood of Philippi. 3 JULIUS C... ... of Sardis: the neighborhood of Philippi. 3 JULIUS CAESAR ACT I SCENE I: Rome. A street. [Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners .] FLAVIUS:... ...fore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones,... ...ones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climb’d up to walls... ...ong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome: And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an univers... ...you might see your shadow. I have heard, Where many of the best respect in Rome, Julius Caesar : Act I, scene ii 7 Except immortal Caesar, speaking o... ...oth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! When went there by an age, ... ... with more than with one man? When could they say till now, that talk’d of Rome, That her wide walls encompass’d but one man? Julius Caesar : Act I, s... ...alls encompass’d but one man? Julius Caesar : Act I, scene ii 9 Now is it Rome indeed and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. O, you a...

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... gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome....

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...om whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome. O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate; What goddess was provok’d, ... ... martial tow’rs the founder shall become, The people Romans call, the city Rome. T o them no bounds of empire I assign, Nor term of years to their imm... ...all join, T o cherish and advance the Trojan line. The subject world shall Rome’s dominion own, And, prostrate, shall adore the nation of the gown. An... ...n let young Ascanius wear, T o whom th’ Ausonian scepter, and the state Of Rome’s imperial name is ow’d by fate.” So spoke the god; and, speaking, too... ...res impart T o their succeeding sons the graceful art; From these imperial Rome receiv’d the game, Which Troy, the youths the Trojan troop, they name.... ... chief! thy race, in times to come, Shall spread the conquests of imperial Rome Rome, whose ascending tow’rs shall heav’n invade, Involving earth and... ...ents bring His lost idea back: I know the Roman king. He shall to peaceful Rome new laws ordain, Call’d from his mean abode a scepter to sustain. Him ... ...xt view the Tarquin kings, th’ avenging sword Of Brutus, justly drawn, and Rome restor’d. He first renews the rods and ax severe, And gives the consul... ...; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise. But, Rome, ‘t is thine alone, with awful sway, T o rule mankind, and make the wo...

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... Goethe was twenty-six, and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the beginning of the revolt against Spain. In the fifteenth century Philip of Burgundy had usurped dominion over several of the provinces of the Netherlands...

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...mont” After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the be...

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...This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from a noble Roman family. Fabiola seems to have e...

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...eir arch enemy, the Eddore. The initial chapters cover the Kinnison genetic line during the fall of Atlantis and Nero's (Gharlane of Eddore) reign in Rome. These tales were inserted into the novel following the serialized release, along with chapters covering members of the Kinnison line in World Wars One, Two and Three. The final chapter of Triplanetary tells of the disco...

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...n about 1588 1590) DRAMATIS PERSONAE SATURNINUS: son to the late Emperor of Rome, and afterwards declared Emperor. BASSIANUS: brother to Saturninus;... ... . (Nurse:) Senators, Tribunes, Officers, Soldiers, and Attendants. SCENE: Rome, and the country near it. 3 TITUS ANDRONICUS ACT I SCENE I: Rome. ... ... I am his first born son, that was the last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome; Then let my father’s honours live in me, Nor wrong mine age with th... ...y right, If ever Bassianus, Caesar’s son, Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome, Keep then this passage to the Capitol And suffer not dishonour to a... ...ions and by friends Ambitiously for rule and empery, Know that the people of Rome, for whom we stand A special party, have, by common voice, In electi... ... empery, Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome: A nobler man, a braver warrior, Lives not this day within the city ... ...ain’d up in arms. Ten years are spent since first he undertook This cause of Rome and chastised with arms Our enemies’ pride: five times he hath retu... ...tised with arms Our enemies’ pride: five times he hath return’d Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons In coffins from the field; And now at last... ... And now at last, laden with horror’s spoils, Returns the good Andronicus to Rome, Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms. Titus Andronicus Act I, sce...

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... write until after the great ruins effected by the siege; that he wrote at Rome, far removed from the criticism of those survivors who could have expo... ...ory. Why there was none, why no Gothic, why no Parthian history, it is for Rome to explain. 16 Thomas de Quincey We tax ourselves, and are taxed by o... ...fe had been really blighted, or its golden pleasures exhausted? Had I seen Rome? Had I read Milton? Had I heard Mozart? No. St. Peter’s, the “Paradise... ... or south latitude it lay, I concealed for a time as rigorously as ancient Rome through every century concealed her real name. 12 The object in this ... ...ighty life through a thou- sand years upon the vast theaters of Athens and Rome, I retraced the horrors, not prophetic but memorial, with which I myse... ...her was at one time disposed to treat as Remus treated the infant walls of Rome; but, on maturer thoughts, having built a fleet of rafts, he treated i... ...o die standing, meaning that Caesar, as the man who repre- sented almighty Rome, should face the last enemy as the first in an attitude of unconquerab... ...ean? What is it that he promises? A memoir upon the eminent grammarians of Rome? Not at all, but a memoir upon the distinguished literati of Rome. Gra... ...eant before us, the two military em- pires then coexisting, of Parthia and Rome, and finally (un- der another idea of political greatness) the intelle...

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... [Enter an Attendant.] Attendant: News, my good lord, from Rome. MARK ANTONY: Grates me: the sum. CLEOPATRA: Nay,... ...me When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messen- gers! MARK ANTONY: Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Act I, scene i 5 Of the ranged empir... ... am full sorry That he approves the common liar, who Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy! Act I, s... ... me home, mince not the general tongue: Name Cleopatra as she is call d in Rome; Rail thou in Fulvia s phrase; and taunt my faults With such full lice... ...trongly speak to us; but the letters too Of many our contriving friends in Rome Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Caesar, a... ...er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius Makes his approaches to the port of Rome: Equality of two domestic powers Breed scrupulous faction: the hated,... ...thee. Away! [Exeunt.] Act I, scene iii 18 SCENE IV: Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR s house. [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, L... ... Tis pity of him. OCTAVIUS CAESAR: Let his shames quickly Drive him to Rome: tis time we twain Did show ourselves i the field; and to that end ... ... From Silvius, sir. POMPEY: He dreams: I know they are in Rome together, Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love, Salt Cleopa...

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...e . When first young Maro in his boundless Mind A Work t’ outlast Immortal Rome design’d, Perhaps he seem’d above the Critick’s Law, And but from ... ...ew some well proportion’d Dome, The World’s just Wonder, and ev’n thine O Rome!) No single Parts unequally surprize; All comes united to th’ admir... ...eason on his Side? Such once were Criticks, such the Happy Few, Athens and Rome in better Ages knew. The mighty Stagyrite first left the Shore, Spr... ... justly reign’d, Licence repress’d, and useful Laws ordain’d; Learning and Rome alike in Empire grew, And Arts still follow’d where her Eagles fl... ...es, at last, both felt their Doom, And the same Age saw Learning fall, and Rome. With Tyranny, then Superstition join’d, As that the Body, this e... ... in Leo’s Golden Days, Starts from her Trance, and trims her wither’d Bays! Rome’s ancient Genius, o’er its Ruins spread, Shakes off the Dust, and... ...od, With Manners gen’rous as his Noble Blood; To him the Wit of Greece and Rome was known, And ev’ry Author’s Merit, but his own. Such late was Wa...

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...thendom, St. Germanus came to Britain, sent by St. Romanus, the Apostle of Rome. With him came St. Louis of T royes. These two fair bishops, Germanus ... ...endragon was his name in the Britons’ tongue, but Dragon’s head in that of Rome. Uther was a mighty lord, who had confidence in his power. His sacring... ...self with so rich and noble a bearing, that neither the emperor’s court at Rome, nor any other bragged of by man, was accounted as aught besides that ... ... boast, and gave more largely than he promised. His father had sent him to Rome, that he might be schooled the more meetly. Gawain was dubbed knight i... ...e, and in due season caused the treasure to be delivered to the emperor at Rome. Thus had it been since the time of Caesar, that mighty emperor, who b... ...all the men abiding in the prov ince who carried arms and owned fealty to Rome. He as sembled these together, ordaining a great company, clad in har... ...Wace that the mansions of Caerleon were more desirable than the palaces of Rome. This rich city, Caerleon, was builded on the Usk, a river which falls... ... Very abundantly he laboured, being Arch bishop of Caerleon and Legate of Rome. Many wonderful works were wrought by his hands. The sick were brought... ...one, and saluted the king very 93 Wace courteously. They were citizens of Rome, said the spokes man of these aged men, and were ambassadors from the...

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...ch is set in the grand frame- work of the Apennines. The sculptor had left Rome with the retreating tide of for- eign residents. For, as summer approa... ...d on whom depends much of whatever remnant of prosperity she still enjoys. Rome, at this season, is pervaded and overhung with atmospheric ter- rors, ... ...ense that this was not the young friend whom he had known so familiarly in Rome; not the sylvan and untutored youth, whom Miriam, Hilda, and himself h... ...ave any later intelligence than your- self,” answered Kenyon; “Miriam left Rome at about the time of your own departure. Within a day or two after our... ...its origin in the sylvan life of Etruria, while Italy was yet guiltless of Rome. Of course, as we regret to say, the earlier and very much the larger ... ...heads and sighing, that the young Count was sadly changed since he went to Rome. The village girls now missed the merry smile with which he used to gr... ...re sometimes dances by moonlight on the lawn, but never since he came from Rome did Donatello’s pres- ence deepen the blushes of the pretty contadinas... ...een inspired into the young Count’s simplicity, since their intercourse in Rome. He now showed a far deeper sense, and an intelligence that began to d... ... sky of the summer afternoon, invisibly to him, above the roofs of distant Rome. Then rose tumultuously into his consciousness that strong love for Hi...

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..., at least, to be going to Europe and to be meaning to spend the winter in Rome. Cecilia met him in the early dusk at the gate of her little garden, a... ...d many things when I was in Europe before, but I did not spend a winter in Rome. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; mos... ...res me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idealized form of loaf... ...t is evidently only a sort of idealized form of loafing: a passive life in Rome, thanks to the number and the quality of one’s impressions, takes on a... ...the upshot of these. “How would you like,” he suddenly demanded, “to go to Rome?” Hudson stared, and, with a hungry laugh which speed- ily consigned o... ...ahma twenty feet tall.” “Nay,” said Rowland soberly, “if you were to go to Rome, you should settle down and work. Athens might help you, but for the p... ...the smallest sum per annum, on which one can keep alive the sacred fire in Rome?” “What is the largest sum at your disposal?” Roderick stroked his lig... ...his feet. “In three words, if you are to be a sculptor, you ought to go to Rome and study the antique. To go to Rome you need money. I ‘m fond of fine... ...n’t forgive— what she ‘ll not really ever forgive—is your taking me off to Rome. Rome is an evil word, in my mother’s vocabu- 31 Henry James lary, to...

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...e set in opposition with the father of the invincible and renowned city of Rome. Let us hope that Fable may, in what shall fol- low, so submit to the ... ...l vigor mind; and of the two most famous cities of the world the one built Rome, and the other made Athens be inhabited. Both stand charged with the r... ...L OMUL OMUL OMULUS US US US US FROM WHOM, and for what reason, the city of Rome, a name so great in glory, and famous in the mouths of all men, was so... ...m- selves here, and, from their own great strength in war, called the city Rome. Others, that at the taking of T roy, some few that escaped and met wi... ...asion of their founding. From this, they say, has come down that custom at Rome for women to salute their kinsmen and husbands with kisses; because th... ...ver, they were both unexpectedly saved, and from them the place was called Rome. Some say, Roma, daughter of the Trojan lady above mentioned, was marr... ...inning at this spot. Upon these accounts the second Larentia is honored at Rome. Meantime Faustulus, Amulius’s swineherd, brought up the 38 V olume O... ... Peparethus, who seem to be the earliest histo- rians of the foundation of Rome, is suspected by some, be- cause of its dramatic and fictitious appear... ...he place where. Romulus chose what was called Roma Quadrata, or the Square Rome, and would have the city there. Remus laid out a piece of ground on th...

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...sels is borne onward through the ages the treasure of human affection.” In Romeo and Juliet Juliet has to be important, just as, in Adam Bede and The... ... Lady bounds, to Antony, but his colleagues, his antagonists, the state of Rome and the impending battle also prodi- giously matter; Portia matters to... ... lived and where Mrs. Touchett occupied a medi- eval palace; she talked of Rome, where she herself had a little pied-a-terre with some rather good old... ... the spectacles. “I’m so red myself. They’ll comfort us on our way back to Rome.” “Ah, they won’t last,” cried the young girl. I wish I could give you... ...I would give you my blue beads,” the child went on. “And do you go back to Rome to-night?” her father enquired. “Yes, we take the train again. We’ve s... ... they return to the convent,” the gentleman explained. “Ah, you go back to Rome? I’ve lately come from there. It’s very lovely now,” said Madame Merle... ...ster of the house asked his new visitor how long it was since she had left Rome. “She came to see me at the convent,” said the young girl before the l... ...than once, Pansy,” Madame Merle de- clared. “Am I not your great friend in Rome?” “I remember the last time best,” said Pansy, “because you told me I ... ... him as he moved about. Then at last she said: “I hoped you’d have come to Rome. I thought it possible you’d have wished yourself to fetch Pansy away....

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...ption of the Coliseum, I have, however, been indebted to the Abbé Gerbet’s Rome Chrétienne; for the Housewives of Lowenburg, and St. Stephen’s Crown, ... ...beauti- ful not to tell. These are the details of the Gallic occupation of Rome, the Legend of St. Genevieve, the Letter of Gertrude von der Wart, the... ...thout a tongue, in allusion to her name, which signifies a lioness. Again, Rome had a tradition of a lady whose mother was in prison under sentence of... ... was in the year B.C. 507, not long after the kings had been expelled from Rome, when they were endeavoring to return by the aid of the Etruscans. Lar... ... Sextus, and gathered all his forces together, to advance upon the city of Rome. The great walls, of old Etrurian architecture, had probably already r... ...ht athwart the stream; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.’ The one... ...h of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome: ‘O Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman’s life, a R... ... time of Pliny, 600 years afterwards, and was probably only destroyed when Rome was sacked by the barbarians. Nor was the Roman bridge the only one th... ... ITOL OL OL OL OL B.C. 389 B.C. 389 B.C. 389 B.C. 389 B.C. 389 THE city of Rome was gradually rising on the banks of the Tiber, and every year was add...

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...ures coasts and kingdoms of the earth; And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, To see the Pope and manner of his court, And take some part of holy... ... is this? Hast thou, as erst I did command, Conducted me within the walls of Rome? MEPHIST. I have, my Faustus; and, for proof thereof, This is the go... ...be bold with his venison. But now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive What Rome contains for to delight thine eyes, Know that this city stands upon ... ...r the which two stately bridges lean, That make safe passage to each part of Rome: Upon the bridge call’d Ponte Angelo Erected is a castle passing str... ... swear That I do long to see the monuments And situation of bright splendent Rome: Come, therefore, let’s away. MEPHIST . Nay , stay, my Faustus: I kn... ...r’s feast, The which, in state and high solemnity, This day, is held through Rome and Italy, In honour of the Pope’s triumphant victory. FAUSTUS. Swee... ...perform it, Faustus. Hark! they come: This day shall make thee be admir’d in Rome. Enter the CARDINALS and BISHOPS, some bearing cro siers, s... ... I go. FAUSTUS. Despatch it soon: The Pope shall curse, that Faustus came to Rome. [Exeunt FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS .] BRUNO. Pope Adrian, let... ...Pope Julius swore to princely Sigismond, For him and the succeeding Popes of Rome, To hold the Emperors their lawful lords. POPE. Pope Julius did abus...

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... AFRAID to go to Verona, lest it should at all put me out of conceit with Romeo and Juliet. But, I was no sooner come into the old market place, than... ... visaged dog, viciously panting in a doorway, who would certainly have had Romeo by the leg, the moment he put it over the wall, if he had existed and... ...tre, where they had just performed the opera (always popular in Verona) of Romeo and Juliet. In another there was a collection, under a colonnade, of ... ...t was always pleasant Verona, and in my remembrance always will be. I read Romeo and Juliet in my own room at the inn that night—of course, no English... ...ld, And world’s exile is death— 81 Charles Dickens which reminded me that Romeo was only banished five and twenty miles after all, and rather distur... ...Therefore, like Grumio’s story, ‘it shall die in oblivion.’ CHAPTER IX TO ROME BY PISA AND SIENA THERE IS NOTHING IN I TALY, more beautiful to me,... ...s not in such a season, however, that we traversed this road on our way to Rome. The middle of January was 94 Pictures from Italy only just past, and... ...d hiring a good tempered V etturino, and his four horses, to take us on to Rome, we travelled through pleasant T uscan villages and cheerful scenery a... ..., where we passed the night. Next morning at seven o’clock, we started for Rome. As soon as we were out of the pig sty, we entered on the Campagna Rom...

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...y and pleading in his youth, and acquired some reputation and influence in Rome by his elo- quence; but the splendor of his actions in arms, and his s... ...torius highly renowned throughout all Spain, and as soon as he returned to Rome he was ap- pointed quaestor of Cisalpine Gaul, at a very seasonable mo... ...Norbanus, and Scipio fought unsuccessfully against Sylla, now advancing to Rome, when much was lost by the cow- ardice and remissness of the commander... ...hough often forewarned of it by Sertorius, at last he utterly despaired of Rome, and hasted into Spain, that by taking possession there beforehand, he... ...f all patience at the in- dignity and shame it would be for a proconsul of Rome to pay tribute to a crew of wretched barbarians. But he little regarde... ...ce and covet- ousness of the governors from time to time sent thither from Rome, they had generally an aversion to the Roman su- premacy. He, however,... ... for war. As soon as he was informed that Sylla had made himself master of Rome, and that the party which sided with Marius and Carbo was going to des... ... assistance out of Gallia Narbonensis, and Pompey the Great, was sent from Rome, itself, in all haste, with consid- erable forces. Nor did Metellus kn... ...esigns and in counter-scheming himself, the fame of him now spread even to Rome itself, as the most expert commander of his time. For the renown of Po...