World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . CLEOPATRA. Cleopatea was the grandest coquette that ever lived. Csesarswere lier fit slaves, for slie had imperial powers of was a gorgeous personification of feminine fascination,—of be-witching womanhood in regal magnificence. She used her femalegraces as enhancements to her queenly state; and made her powerof pleasing, a crown to her royal power. She was born a princess,reigned a queen, won an emperor, swayed a hero, and defeated aconqueror ; while her personal blandishments live, in the imagina-tion
World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . CLEOPATRA. Cleopatea was the grandest coquette that ever lived. Csesarswere lier fit slaves, for slie had imperial powers of was a gorgeous personification of feminine fascination,—of be-witching womanhood in regal magnificence. She used her femalegraces as enhancements to her queenly state; and made her powerof pleasing, a crown to her royal power. She was born a princess,reigned a queen, won an emperor, swayed a hero, and defeated aconqueror ; while her personal blandishments live, in the imagina-tion of posterity, as far outweighing the facts of her fortune. Wethink of her as the queen of enslavers, more than as queen ofEgypt. She stands conspicuous to fancy in might of allurement. The story of her life tells the tale of her supremacy in the artof subduing. She was born about the year 69 B. C, and was thedaughter of Ptolemy Auletes, king of Egypt, by whose will sheand her elder brother were appointed joint successors to thecrown. This partnership in reigning led t
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