The Quarterly Review, Volume 179William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1894 |
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... Tacitus would have termed an ' arx æternæ dominationis , ' it would be difficult to surpass the Norman turres , those ' towers that frown ' over town or valley , those grim survivors , in places still , of an age when a conquered people ...
... Tacitus would have termed an ' arx æternæ dominationis , ' it would be difficult to surpass the Norman turres , those ' towers that frown ' over town or valley , those grim survivors , in places still , of an age when a conquered people ...
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... Tacitus and the execrations of Juvenal . The late Professor Sellar - in that valuable volume on Horace and the elegiac poets which appeared after his lamented death , fitly crowning a literary career to which British scholar- ship may ...
... Tacitus and the execrations of Juvenal . The late Professor Sellar - in that valuable volume on Horace and the elegiac poets which appeared after his lamented death , fitly crowning a literary career to which British scholar- ship may ...
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... Tacitus , neither scourge nor fire , nor the fury of the torturers , who were loth to be beaten by a woman , ' could extort one word of confession , betrayal , or retractation . Lucan surpassed the rest in his eager- ness to save his ...
... Tacitus , neither scourge nor fire , nor the fury of the torturers , who were loth to be beaten by a woman , ' could extort one word of confession , betrayal , or retractation . Lucan surpassed the rest in his eager- ness to save his ...
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... Tacitus has given us such a brilliant sketch in the Annals , ' t and who , according to that historian , while his life - blood in obedience to the tyrant's mandate was flowing from his veins , wrote a full account of the profligacy of ...
... Tacitus has given us such a brilliant sketch in the Annals , ' t and who , according to that historian , while his life - blood in obedience to the tyrant's mandate was flowing from his veins , wrote a full account of the profligacy of ...
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... Tacitus as to enable us to see , what the facts he relates would appear like when not refracted through this distorting medium . For Shakespeare has not more firmly fixed the popular idea of Richard Crookback than Tacitus that of ...
... Tacitus as to enable us to see , what the facts he relates would appear like when not refracted through this distorting medium . For Shakespeare has not more firmly fixed the popular idea of Richard Crookback than Tacitus that of ...
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