World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . crown from Julius Caesars bestowal ;she outvied Antony in costly display and sumptuous entertain-ment. Her irresistible allurement lay in her faculty of adapting her-self to mens pecuHar tastes and predilections. She followed Juliusto Rome; she shared Antonys wildest frolics. The ample way inwhich she at once understood and responded to Marc Antonyspropensities, explains the unbounded ascendency attained overhim. His enjoyment, his gratification, his pleasure, were herstudy; and to minister to them, her dehght. Antonys
World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . crown from Julius Caesars bestowal ;she outvied Antony in costly display and sumptuous entertain-ment. Her irresistible allurement lay in her faculty of adapting her-self to mens pecuHar tastes and predilections. She followed Juliusto Rome; she shared Antonys wildest frolics. The ample way inwhich she at once understood and responded to Marc Antonyspropensities, explains the unbounded ascendency attained overhim. His enjoyment, his gratification, his pleasure, were herstudy; and to minister to them, her dehght. Antonys passion forCleopatra was a luxurious intoxication; and she not only pre-sented him the voluptuous draught, but drained it with him. Cleopatra is enthroned enchantress of the world. She cap-tivated Juhus Caesar; entranced the heart and senses of MarcAntony, and succeeded in beguiling the wary Octavius. She, of allher sex, in her pei-son gave to the unworthy art of coquetry, asomething of magnificent and lustrous in its so-potent was the poetry of ^m, SAINT CECILIA. Among tlie firm-hearted band who sufifered persecution anddeath for faiths sake,—the early martyis,—one of the most shin-ing examples is Saint Cecilia. To use Fullers quaint form of ex-pression :— She lived in an age which we may call the fiist cock-crowing after the midnight of ignorance and superstition. The events which mark her career are told with beautifulsimplicity in the Golden Legend [Legenda Aurea]; andChaucers charming version of the story, in his Second NunsTale, is almost a literal rhythmical translation of the old Latinlegend. The details furnished in the Acta S. Cseciliae have beenarranged into narrative order with hagiographical zeal, by DomProsper Gueranger, Abbe de Solesmes; who has traced the careerof the Saint through her life, martyrdom, and posthumous gloryof canonization, in a no less picturesque than reverential form,—andthat is the only spirit in which to trea
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