. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. at once, and furious spreadThe carnage, till each mangled Persian were the groans of Xerxes when he sawThis havoc; for his seat, a lofty moundCommanding the wide sea, oerlooked his rueful cries he rent his royal robes,And through his troops embattled on the shoreGave signal of retreat; then started fled disorderd. To the former illsThese are fresh miseries to awake thy sighs. A toss. Invidious Fortune, how thy baleful powerHath sunk the hopes of Persia ! Bitter fruitMy son hath tas

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. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. at once, and furious spreadThe carnage, till each mangled Persian were the groans of Xerxes when he sawThis havoc; for his seat, a lofty moundCommanding the wide sea, oerlooked his rueful cries he rent his royal robes,And through his troops embattled on the shoreGave signal of retreat; then started fled disorderd. To the former illsThese are fresh miseries to awake thy sighs. A toss. Invidious Fortune, how thy baleful powerHath sunk the hopes of Persia ! Bitter fruitMy son hath tasted from his purposed vengeanceOn Athens, famed for arms; the fatal fieldOf Marathon, red with barbaric blood,Sufiiced not; that defeat he thought to avenge,And pulld this hideous ruin on his tell me, if thou canst, where didst thou leaveThe ships that happily escaped the wreck ? Mess. The poor remains of Persias scattered fleetSpread evry sail for flight, as the wind drives,In wild disorder ; and on land no ruined army.—^schylus, translated by W. PoTTER. 127.

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