The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 7Henry G. Bohn, 1866 |
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Acropolita Adrianople ambition Amurath Anatolia ancient Andronicus annals Anne of Savoy Arabshah arms army Asia Bajazet Bibliot Byzantine Cæsar Cantacuzene Cantemir capital captive Catalans century Christian church civil clergy command conqueror conquest Constantinople court Courtenay crown crusade daughter death Demotica Ducange Ducas duke emperor empire enemies Europe father Finlay France French galleys Genoese gold grandson Greeks Hellespont Hist historian holy honour horse hundred Italy John John of Brienne khan king kingdom knights Koeppen labour Latins Mahomet Matthew Paris Memoirs Michael Moguls monarch monks Muratori nations Nicephorus Gregoras noble Orchan Ottoman Pachymer palace Palæologus patriarch peace Persia Peter of Courtenay Petrarch Phranza pope prince Propontis provinces reign religion restored Roman Romania Rome royal ruin Sherefeddin siege soldiers sovereign successor sultan sword Tartars thousand Thrace throne Timour Transoxiana treaty troops Turkish Turks valour Vataces Venetians Venice victory youth Zingis
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Page 330 - A melancholy reflection, on the vicissitudes of human greatness, forced itself on his mind ; and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry : " The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace ; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.
Page 379 - His memory is stained with the glaring vices of avarice and pride ; nor has the courage of a martyr promoted this ecclesiastical champion to the honors of a saint ; a magnanimous sinner (say the chronicles of the times), who entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog.
Page 428 - Of the three popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim: he fled and was brought back a prisoner: the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest...
Page 310 - A circumstance, that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople, is the reunion of the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were intermingled with the mechanical engines for casting stones and darts ; the bullet and the battering-ram were directed against the same walls ; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and inextinguishable fire. A wooden turret, of the largest size, was advanced on rollers : this portable magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by...
Page 328 - In the hippodrome or atmeidan, his eye was attracted by the twisted column of the three serpents ; and, as a trial of his strength, he shattered with his iron mace or battle-axe the under jaw of one of these monsters, which in the eyes of the Turks were the idols or talismans of the city.
Page 320 - Empire. The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy, and engage our affections ; the skilful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary though pernicious science. But, in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion...
Page 308 - The incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the smoke, the sound, and the fire of their musketry and cannon.
Page 320 - From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire.
Page 82 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 39 - Among the causes that undermined that Gothic edifice, a conspicuous place must be allowed to the crusades. The estates of the barons were dissipated, and their race was often extinguished, in these costly and perilous expeditions. 'Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community.