On the Beauties, Harmonies, And Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... 4
On the Beauties, Harmonies, And Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... 4
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Heightened by these moral andclassical associations^ we seem to be cotemporary with all ages ; and every Roman Triumphs. 101 spectacle^ familiar to our youth, seems to be renewed j from the first triumph of Tarquinius Priscus to those of Diocletian and M aximian ; — the last celebrated in Rome. . Thence to that of Belisarius, the last reqorded to have been witnessed at Constantinople.— Spectacles v exceeded only by the splendid march of Xerxes into Gre€(ce through Asia Minor ; or by Alexander's... magnificent entry into Babylon.
But what a reverse presents itself in the subsequent devastations of the Goths : when Totilas having sacked the city, the wife of Boethius, and many of the most illustrious ladies in Rome, were reduced to such dis- tress, that they begged their bread fi'om door to door.
Nor,-r-since intellectual power stands in the first rank of Nature's phenomena, — do we reflect without scorn and derision, that in a time^ when Rome was threat- ened with a famine,^ three thousand female dancers, and many other persons connected with theatrical exjiibitions, were allowed to remain ; when vast num- bers of persons, who professed the liberal arts, were desired by a public edict to withdraw!
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Heightened by these moral andclassical associations^ we seem to be cotemporary with all ages ; and every Roman Triumphs. 101 spectacle^ familiar to our youth, seems to be renewed j from the first triumph of Tarquinius Priscus to those of Diocletian and M aximian ; — the last celebrated in Rome. . Thence to that of Belisarius, the last reqorded to have been witnessed at Constantinople.— Spectacles v exceeded only by the splendid march of Xerxes into Gre€(ce through Asia Minor ; or by Alexander's... magnificent entry into Babylon.
But what a reverse presents itself in the subsequent devastations of the Goths : when Totilas having sacked the city, the wife of Boethius, and many of the most illustrious ladies in Rome, were reduced to such dis- tress, that they begged their bread fi'om door to door.
Nor,-r-since intellectual power stands in the first rank of Nature's phenomena, — do we reflect without scorn and derision, that in a time^ when Rome was threat- ened with a famine,^ three thousand female dancers, and many other persons connected with theatrical exjiibitions, were allowed to remain ; when vast num- bers of persons, who professed the liberal arts, were desired by a public edict to withdraw!
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