Virgil wrote of the founding of Rome; her dissolution is as grand a subject.

It would mean years of preparation, and again years in the writing.

The siege and capture of Rome by Alaric--what do you think ?" "A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine.

But who knows ?" There was high talk in Walcot Square that evening.

All unknown to its other inhabitants, the poor lodging-house was converted into a temple of the Muses, and harmonies as from Apollo's lyre throbbed in the hearts of the two friends.