H. G. - Keene | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Yet that might and that greatness were reduced to a mere show before his long reign terminated; and the Moghul Empire resembled -- to use a familiar image -- one of those Etruscan corpses which, though crowned and armed, are destined to crumble at the breath of heaven or at the touch of human hands. And still more did it resemble some splendid palace.