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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.] [on] _By Bud
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