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He gave unbounded religious toleration, and meditated a complete codification of the Roman law. He founded a magnificent public library, appointed commissioners to make a map of the whole empire, and contemplated the draining of the Pontine marshes. But his career was suddenly cut off by his premature death.
The result of this protracted warfare with petty cities and states for one hundred and fifty years was the complete independence of the City of the Seven Hills, the regaining of the conquests lost by the expulsion of Tarquin, the conquest of Latium, the dissolution of the Latin League, the possession of the Pontine district, and the extension of Roman power to the valleys of the Apennines.
"Will much-admired young-lady cherries-in-black-hat indicate method possible correspondence 10211, Post-Office?" How many of these arrows, I wonder, reach their mark? Ah, here are politics and News of the World, at last. A promising article on the "Direttissimo Roma-Napoli" the railway line that is to connect the two towns by way of the Pontine Marshes. . . . Dear me!
Dietrich the Goth may, indeed, be called the founder of 'Byzantine' architecture throughout the Western world. Meanwhile, agriculture prospered once more; the Pontine Marshes were drained; the imperial ports restored, and new cities sprang up.
From the bridge, too, through one of the officers' glasses, Frank could see, far inland across the Pontine Marshes, the gilded dome of St. Peter's, glimmering in the pellucid morning sunlight. She called Durkin, and pointed it out to him. "See, it's Rome!" she cried, with strangely mingled feelings. "It's St. Peter's!" "I wish it was the Statue of Liberty and New York," he said, moodily.
The conductor came for his buono mano, the new horses were harnessed in, the postilions leaped into the saddles, and thus both parties set out upon their night ride. It was not far from nine o'clock. "And now," said Mr. George, "before a great while we shall come upon the Pontine Marshes."
'A snipe, said Albinia. 'A snipe that I killed in the Pontine marshes. 'There is very good shooting about Anxur, said Albinia. 'You have been at Rome? He permitted himself a little animation at discovering any one within the pale of civilization. 'For one fortnight in the course of a galloping tour with my two brothers, said Albinia. 'All the Continent in one long vacation!
The Pontine marshes are not so prolific of fever, as the air of that country of ready-witted intelligence and smartness; and now, ere I return from my digression, let me solemnly declare, that, for the opinion here expressed, I have not received any money or moneys, nor do I expect to receive such, or any place, pension, or other reward, from Tom Steele or any one else concerned.
"Monsieur has fallen on his feet in coming here, then," she said; "except on the Chaumiere days the boulevard is as lonely as the Pontine marshes." "Ah! you know the Pontine marshes?" said Godefroid. "No, monsieur, I don't; but I've got an old gentleman upstairs whose daughter seems to get her living by being ill, and he says that; I only repeat it.
Here and there, both on the river and in the fields, other lights were glimmering, whether close at hand or far away, the eye could not distinguish; they shrank together, then suddenly lengthened out into great blurs of light; grasshoppers innumerable kept up an unceasing churr, persistent as the frogs of the Pontine marshes; and across the cloudless, but dark lowering sky floated from time to time the cries of unseen birds.
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