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events to recollect in the Grecian, but more lines to remember in the Roman poet.
To the Iliad, subsequent ages have turned with one accord for images of heroism,
traits of nature, grandeur of character. To the AEmeid, subsequent times will ...
events to recollect in the Grecian, but more lines to remember in the Roman poet.
To the Iliad, subsequent ages have turned with one accord for images of heroism,
traits of nature, grandeur of character. To the AEmeid, subsequent times will ...
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Discoursing thus together, they resort Where poor Evander keeps his country
court; They viewed the ground of Rome's litigious hall, Once oxen lowed where
now the lawyers bawl." —DRYDEN's Virgil, viii. 387. What Homer was to Virgil,
and ...
Discoursing thus together, they resort Where poor Evander keeps his country
court; They viewed the ground of Rome's litigious hall, Once oxen lowed where
now the lawyers bawl." —DRYDEN's Virgil, viii. 387. What Homer was to Virgil,
and ...
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Even Livy, in his pictured narrative of Roman victories, is essentially biographical.
His inimitable work owes its enduring celebrity to the charming episodes of
individual history, or graphic pictures of particular events with which it abounds; ...
Even Livy, in his pictured narrative of Roman victories, is essentially biographical.
His inimitable work owes its enduring celebrity to the charming episodes of
individual history, or graphic pictures of particular events with which it abounds; ...
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His descriptions of the Roman empire in the zenith of its power, as it existed in
the time of Augustus; of its decline and long protracted old age, under
Constantine and his jo ls o so o successors on the Byzantine throne; 76 GUIZOT.
His descriptions of the Roman empire in the zenith of its power, as it existed in
the time of Augustus; of its decline and long protracted old age, under
Constantine and his jo ls o so o successors on the Byzantine throne; 76 GUIZOT.
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Witness the battle of Salamis, which repelled from Europe the tide of Persian
invasion; that of Actium, which gave a master to the Roman world; that of Sluys,
which exposed France to the dreadful English invasions, begun under Edward III.
; ...
Witness the battle of Salamis, which repelled from Europe the tide of Persian
invasion; that of Actium, which gave a master to the Roman world; that of Sluys,
which exposed France to the dreadful English invasions, begun under Edward III.
; ...
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| Otsikko | Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3 Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Archibald Alison |
| Kirjoittaja | Archibald Alison |
| Kustantaja | W. Blackwood, 1850 |
| Alkuperäisteoksen sijainti | Kalifornian yliopisto |
| Digitoitu | 18. lokakuu 2007 |
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