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Letters and Literary Remains (2); Euphranor. Six Dramas From Calderon. the Bird Parliament. the Two Generals
Letters and Literary Remains Euphranor Six Dramas From Calderon the Bird Parliament the Two Generals - 2 Author:Edward FitzGerald Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Macmillan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where yo... more »u can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE TWO GENERALS. LUCIUS MILIUS PAULLUS. His Speech to the Roman People after his Triumph over Perseus, King of Macedonia, U. C. 585. Livy xlv. 41. (And unfaithful to the few and simple words recorded in the Original?) With what success, Quirites, I have served The Commonwealth, and, in the very hour Of Glory, what a double Thunderbolt From Heav'n has struck upon my private roof, Rome needs not to be told, who lately saw So close together treading through her streets My Triumph, and the Funeral of my Sons. Yet bear with me while, in a few brief words, And uninvidious spirit, I compare Beside the fulness of the general Joy My single Destitution. When the time For leaving Italy was come, the Ships With all their Armament, and men complete, As the Sun rose I left Brundusium: With all my Ships before that Sun was down I made Corcyra: thence, within five days To Delphi: where, Lustration to the God Made for myself, the Army, and the Fleet, In five days more I reach'd the Roman Camp; Took the Command; redress'd what was amiss : And, for King Perseus would not forth to fight, And, for his Camp's strength, forth could not be forced, I slipp'd beside him through the Mountain-pass To Pydna; whither when himself forced back, And fight he must, I fought, I routed him: And all the War that, swelling for four years, Consul to Consul handed over worse Than from his Predecessor he took up, In fifteen days victoriously I closed. Nor stay'd my Fortune here. Upon Success Success came rolling: with their Army lost, The Macedonia...« less