1867 EXQUISITE Macaulay Lays Ancient Rome Poetry Horatius Punic Wars Huguenots

1867 EXQUISITE Macaulay Lays Ancient Rome Poetry Horatius Punic Wars Huguenots

“Then out spake brave Horatius,

The Captain of the Gate:

“To every man upon this earth

Death cometh soon or late.

And how can man die better

Than facing fearful odds,

For the ashes of his fathers,

And the temples of his gods?”

– Macaulay, Lays, ‘Horatius’

“Lays of Ancient Rome” by Thomas B Macaulay is a series of popular poems and heroic events in Roman history, the most famous of them being ‘Horatius’. The Roman ballads include a brief introduction, in which Macaulay sought to write poems that resembled poetry that might have been spoken in ancient Rome. The stories include:

• ‘Horatius’
• ‘Battle of Lake Regillus’
• ‘Tragedy of Virginia’
• ‘Prophecy of Capys’
• ‘Ivry, Song of the Huguenots’
• ‘Armada: A Fragment’

Item number: #26448

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MACAULAY, Thomas Babington

Lays of ancient Rome

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1867.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 210
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.75in X 7.25in (22cm x 18cm)

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