FAMOUS AFFINITIES OF HISTORY
THE ROMANCE OF DEVOTION
BY
LYNDON ORR
VOLUME I OF IV.
CONTENTS
[THE STORY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA]
[ABELARD AND HELOISE]
[QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE EARL OF LEICESTER]
[MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND LORD BOTHWELL]
[QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AND THE MARQUIS MONALDESCHI]
[KING CHARLES II. AND NELL GWYN]
[MAURICE OF SAXONY AND ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR]
[THE STORY OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART]
THE STORY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Of all love stories that are known to human history, the love story of Antony and Cleopatra has been for nineteen centuries the most remarkable. It has tasked the resources of the plastic and the graphic arts. It has been made the theme of poets and of prose narrators. It has appeared and reappeared in a thousand forms, and it appeals as much to the imagination to-day as it did when Antony deserted his almost victorious troops and hastened in a swift galley from Actium in pursuit of Cleopatra.