Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . by the appearance of Tetricus; nor could they suppress a risingmurmur, that the haughty emperor should thus expose to publicignominy the person of a Roman and a magistrate. 12. But, however in the treatment of his unfortunate rivalsAurelian might indulge his pride, he behaved towards them with 280a generous clemency, which was seldom exercised by the ancientconquerors. Princes
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . by the appearance of Tetricus; nor could they suppress a risingmurmur, that the haughty emperor should thus expose to publicignominy the person of a Roman and a magistrate. 12. But, however in the treatment of his unfortunate rivalsAurelian might indulge his pride, he behaved towards them with 280a generous clemency, which was seldom exercised by the ancientconquerors. Princes who, without success, had defended theirthrone or freedom, were frequently strangled in prison, as soonas the triumphal pomp ascended the Capitol. These usurpers,whom their defeat had convicted of the crime of treason, were 285permitted to spend their lives in affluence and honorable emperor presented Zenobia with an elegant villa at Tibur,or Tivoli, about twenty miles from the capital; the Syrian queeninsensibly sunk into a Roman matron, her daughters marriedinto noble families, and her race was not yet extinct in the fifth 290century. 260. Tetricus. See note to line 2. XVII. ROBERT BURNS. Px^jJm/ (f^i4/pn^^ CHARACTERIZATION BY THOMAS CARLYLE. I. We love Burns, and we pity him ; and love and pity areprone to. magnify. Criticism, it is sometimes thought, should bea cold business : we are not so sure of this ; but, at all events,our concern with Burns is not exclusively that of critics. True CARLYLES CHARACTERIZATION OF BURNS. 271 and genial as his poetry must appear, it is not chiefly as a poet,but as a man, that he interests and affects us. He was often ad-vised to write a tragedy : time and means were not lent him forthis ; but through life he enacted a tragedy, and one of the deep-est. We question whether the world has since witnessed so ut-terly sad a scene ; whether Napoleon himself, left to brawl withSir Hudson Lowe, and perish on his rock amid the
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