Tamerlane : corrupted form of Timur-i-lang (1336-1405), a Turk jihadi best known for the barbaric conquests of his dynasty, invaded India in 1398, opening Delhi to rapine & pillage by his hordes for days on end, leaving anarchy, famine & pestilence behind him.
... No difference to the principle. ANTONIO There should be Inquisitions for such as you. What after? BASIL Nothing unless you wish to assure the conquest, Not plunder it merely like a Tamerlane. I'll teach that also. 'Tis but making her Realise her inferiority. Unanswerably and o'erwhelmingly Show her how fortunate she is to get you And all her life too short for gratitude; That you ...
... the universe there are many lines of Force on which various personalities or various achievements and formations spring up — e.g. the line Pericles-Caesar-Napoleon or the line Alexander-Jenghis-Tamerlane-Napoleon — meeting together there — so it may be too in poetry, lines of poetic force prolonging themselves from one poet to another, meeting and diverging. Yours seems to be a third — a Daimon ...
... have been obliged to play the leading parts. The conception is admirable. An inoffensive pleader sitting among his briefs, to all appearance harmless, unmilitary, civilian, but in reality a masked Tamerlane, Napoleon or Shivaji, full of dark and tremendous schemes; a disarmed and helpless mob of workmen and peasants who are really a dangerous, well-equipped and well-organised army of a hundred thousand ...
... In the universe there are many lines of Force on which various personalities or various achievements and formations spring up—e.g. the line Pericles-Caesar-Napoleon or the line Alexander-Jenghiz-Tamerlane-Napoleon—meeting together there—so it may be too in poetry, lines of poetic force prolonging themselves from one poet to another, meeting and Page 546 diverging. Yours seems to be a third—a ...
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