Assez longtemps. — Long enough

S. A en propager la conquête. — To propagate their triumph. For this use of en, see Grammar, p. 241, § 9.

4. Dompter la foudre et les tyrans. — An allusion to the line often applied to Franklin in his lifetime : " Eripuit codo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis."

1. Ducis. — A tragic poet, born 1733, died 1816. He lived poor and independent, and took no part in the great political events of his time, but abandoned himself completely to his passion for poetry and for the stage. He is principally known for his translations, or, rather, weak imitations, of Shakespeare.