From the arched roof
Pendent by subtle magic many a row
Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed
With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light
As from a sky.—Wakefield.
[60] Addison's Vision: "A band of historians took their station at each door."
[61] Alexander the Great. The tiara was the crown peculiar to the Asian princes. His desire to be thought the son of Jupiter Ammon, caused him to wear the horns of that god, and to represent the same upon his coins, which was continued by several of his successors.—Pope.
[62] Dryden, Ode to St. Cecilia:
A dragon's fiery form belied the god.—Bowles.
[63] As a warrior and a man of letters; for skill in both capacities was supposed to be due to Minerva.
[64] Prior, in his Carmen Seculare, says of William III.,
How o'er himself as o'er the world he reigns.
[65] A concise and masterly stroke, which at once sets before us the mixture of character, which appears in that extraordinary man, Julius Cæsar.—Bowles.
[66] "In other illustrious men you will observe that each possessed some one shining quality, which was the foundation of his fame: in Epaminondas all the virtues are found united; force of body, eloquence of expression, vigour of mind, contempt of riches, gentleness of disposition, and, what is chiefly to be regarded, courage and conduct in war."—Diodorus Siculus, lib. xv.—Warton.