Lectures On the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
Lectures On the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830
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There is enough to cool the flames of lust, to abate the heights of pride, to appease the itch of covetous desires, to sully and dash out the dissembling colours of a lustful, artificial, and imaginary beauty. There the warlike and the peaceful, the fortunate and the miserable, the beloved and the despised princes mingle their dust, and pay down their symbol of mortality, and tell all the world that when we die, our ashes shall be equal to kings, and 194 THE AGE OF ELIZABETH. Our accounts easie...r, and our pains for our crimes shall be less. * To my appre- hension, it is a sad record which is left by Athenaeus concerning jSinus the great Assyrian monarch, whose life and death is summed up in these words : ' Ninus the Assyrian had an ocean of gold, and other riches more than the sand in the Caspian sea ; he never saw the stars, and perhaps he never desired it ; he never stirred up the holy fire among the Magi : nor touched his god with the sa- cred rod according to the laws : he never offered sacrifice, nor worshipped the deity, nor administered justice, nor spake to the people ; nor numbered them : but he was most valiant to eat and drink, and having mingled his wines, he threw the rest upon the stones.
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