_Timoleon_; was invited from Corinth by the Syracusans (B.C. 344) to be
their leader in throwing off the tyranny of the second Dionysius. Having
effected this, defeated the Carthaginian invaders, and reduced all the
minor despotisms within Sicily, he voluntarily resigned his paramount
power and died in honoured retirement.
_He also_; In 1556 the Emperor Charles V gave up all his dominions,
withdrawing in 1557 to Yuste;--a monastery situated in a region of
singular natural beauty, between Xarandilla and Plasencia in Estremadura.
He died there, Sep. 21, 1558.
_Loosens the stars_; So Vergil, _Georg_. I., 365:
Saepe etiam stellas vento inpendente videbis
Praecipites caelo labi . . .
_The phantom king_; Richard Cromwell was Protector from Sep. 3, 1658 to
May 25, 1659. After 1660 his life was that of a simple country
gentleman, till his death in 1712, when he was buried at Hursley near
Winchester.
_Unheirlike heir_; See _Appendix_ E.
CHARLES EDWARD AT ROME
1785
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O sunset, of the rise
Unworthy!--that, so brave, so clear, so gay;
This, prison'd in low-hanging earth-mists gray,
And ever-darken'd skies:--
Sad sunset of a royal race in gloom,
Accomplishing to the end the dolorous Stuart doom!
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Ghost of a king, he sate
In Rome, the city of ghosts and thrones outworn,
Drowsing his thoughts in wine;--a life forlorn;
Pageant of faded state;
Aged before old age, and all that Past,
Like a forgotten thing of shame, behind him cast.
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