Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . of the ladies, all fitted up in the most costly and elegant manner. Thisenclosure, as we are told, occupied an area of full-five miles in emperors birthday was celebrated with great pomp on a vast plain nearthe city; and on these occasions the monarch caused himself to be weighed ingolden scales three times, the firs
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . of the ladies, all fitted up in the most costly and elegant manner. Thisenclosure, as we are told, occupied an area of full-five miles in emperors birthday was celebrated with great pomp on a vast plain nearthe city; and on these occasions the monarch caused himself to be weighed ingolden scales three times, the first balance being of gold pieces, the second ofsilver, the third of perfumes, all which were distributed among the spectators,!Akber reigned no less than fifty-one years, but his latter days were notblessed with the content and happiness to himself which he had done so muchto diffuse among his subjects. He lost a son, whom he tenderly loved; thenhis minister Abul Fazil, who was murdered by banditti; and, lastly, anotherson. These blows, one after the other, were too much for him: his healthdeclined visibly, and in 1605 he died, leaving his subjects to mourn for one ofthe best and wisest sovereigns that ever adorned or dignified a throne. TORQUATO TASSO. 137. TORQUATO TASSO. TORQUATO TASSO, the gTeat author of Jerusalem Delivered, was born atSorrento, near Naples, March 11, 1544. His father was Bernardo Tasso, alsoa scholar and a poet, in his own day, of considerable repute. The life of Tassowas almost from its commencement a troubled romance. His infancy was dis-tinguished by extraordinary precocity ; but he was yet a mere child when polit-ical events induced his father to leave Naples, and, separating himself from hisfamily, to take up his abode at Rome. Hither Torquato, when he was only inhis eleventh year, was called upon to follow him, and to bid adieu both to whathad been hitherto his home, and to the only parent whom it might almost besaid he had ever known. He never again
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