This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... I shared the sway of Asia and Africa with thy valiant competitor, and saw the dreaded monarchs of those regions prostrate at my footstool. Well may I boast, who could captivate such a general to wear my chains, and long hold thy overwhelming power fluctuating in the balance. Poor is thy effort to contemn a sovereign who so often chased slumber from thy pillow, and filled thy hard and proud heart with keen and consuming cares. And when I had become acquainted with the royal magnanimity of Antony, his high talents, his noble sense of honour, and his beneficence of heart, I for the first time, loved sincerely." Having spoken thus, she pressed affectionately the hand of Antony, who still felt the control of her fatal endearments. COWPERF.NCE IV. The mutual accusations of Antony and Octavius . the dispute of Cato and Casar, and the mediation of Brutus and Pomponius. Octavius, until now a silent spectator, thus addressed Cleopatra: "the grave then has not deprived thee of thy seductive arts, and thou thinkest to deceive us with them, we who are disengaged from the thrall of the senses See the crowned courtesan, with what delicate and pensive grace she prates of love, she who stabbed her brother Ptolemy and her sister Arsinoe, to possess the throne undivided " At this the face of Antony crimsoned, and his lips quivered with rage, and with indignant impetuosity he exclaimed: "Atrocious Octavius darest thou upbraid another with, thy own pre-eminent vice? Didst thou not, while yet but a boy, during thy sanguinary consulate. in a fit of disgust at the praetor Q. Gallius, tear out bis eyes?" Octavius replied with suppressed emotion: "What sayest thou? art not thou thyself a Triumvir, and the inflexible promoter of the proscriptions? Dost thou not...