nth century. "He
conquered Armenia and Georgia ... but was assassinated by Yussuf
Cothuol, Governor of Berzem, and was buried at Merw, in Khorassan." His
epitaph moralizes his fate: "O vous qui avez vu la grandeur d'Alparslan
elevee jusq'au ciel, regardez! le voici maintenant en
poussiere."--Hammer-Purgstall, _Histoire de l'Empire Othoman_, i.
13-15.]

[oh] _But now an exile_----.--[MS. G.]

[344] {455} ["The _Lions' Mouths_, under the arcade at the summit of the
Giants' Stairs, which gaped widely to receive anonymous charges, were no
doubt far more often employed as vehicles of private malice than of zeal
for the public welfare."--_Sketches from Venetian History_, 1832, ii.
380.]

[oi] _To waste its future_----.--[MS. G.]

[345] Ali Coumourgi [Damad Ali or Ali Cumurgi (i.e. son of the
charcoal-burner)], the favourite of three sultans, and Grand Vizier to
Achmet III., after recovering Peloponnesus from the Venetians in one
campaign, was mortally wounded in the next, against the Germans, at the
battle of Peterwaradin (in the plain of Carlowitz), in Hungary,
endeavouring to rally his guards. He died of his wounds next day [August
16, 1716]. His last order was the decapitation of General Breuner, and
some other German prisoners, and his last words, "Oh that I could thus
serve all the Christian dogs!" a speech and act not unlike one of
Caligula. He was a young man of great ambition and unbounded
presumption: on being told that Prince Eugene, then opposed to him, "was
a great general," he said, "I shall become a greater, and at his
expense."

[For his letter to Prince Eugene, "Eh bien! la guerre va decider entre
nous," etc., and for an account of his death, see Hammer-Purgstall,
_Historie de l'Empire Othoman_, xiii. 300, 312.]

[oj] {456} _And death-like rolled_----.--[MS. G. erased.]

[ok] _Like comets in convulsion riven_.--[MS. G. Copy erased.]

[ol]
_Impervious to the powerless sun_,
_Through sulphurous smoke whose blackness grew_.--
[MS. G. erased.]

[om] {457} _In midnight courtship to Italian maid_.--[MS. G.]

[346] {458} [The siege of Vienna was raised by John Sobieski, King of
Poland (1629-1696), September 12, 1683. Buda was retaken from the Turks
by Charles VII., Duke of Lorraine, Sobieski's ally and former rival for
the kingdom of Poland, September 2, 1686. The conquest of the Morea was
begun by the Venetians in 1685, and completed in 1699.]

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