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... NERO AS APOLLO .. РОРРЖА 68 71 ... 79 OCTAVIA ... SENECA .... 94 104 VESPASIAN ... 110 .... CORBULO 115 NERO ...... TERENCE .. MÆCENAS .. 115 137 172 REGULUS 191 HORACE . 207 CICERO ( PROFILE ) .... 225 CICERO ...... 234 SCIPIO ...
... NERO AS APOLLO .. РОРРЖА 68 71 ... 79 OCTAVIA ... SENECA .... 94 104 VESPASIAN ... 110 .... CORBULO 115 NERO ...... TERENCE .. MÆCENAS .. 115 137 172 REGULUS 191 HORACE . 207 CICERO ( PROFILE ) .... 225 CICERO ...... 234 SCIPIO ...
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... Nero . No wonder if now , for the writing of Roman history , grim realism took the place of blithe romance . Of Tacitus himself we know very little . We do not know where he was born . We do not know when he was born . He was probably ...
... Nero . No wonder if now , for the writing of Roman history , grim realism took the place of blithe romance . Of Tacitus himself we know very little . We do not know where he was born . We do not know when he was born . He was probably ...
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... Nero . Now , too , Italy was prostrated by disasters either entirely novel , or that recurred only after a long succession of ages ; cities in Campania's richest plains were swallowed up and overwhelmed ; Rome was wasted by ...
... Nero . Now , too , Italy was prostrated by disasters either entirely novel , or that recurred only after a long succession of ages ; cities in Campania's richest plains were swallowed up and overwhelmed ; Rome was wasted by ...
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... Nero is , perhaps , the part most familiar of all to the modern reader . This might seem a reason for choosing some other part , some part more novel , to be presented here . But the evil tale of Nero is the most familiar , because it ...
... Nero is , perhaps , the part most familiar of all to the modern reader . This might seem a reason for choosing some other part , some part more novel , to be presented here . But the evil tale of Nero is the most familiar , because it ...
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... Nero , was to pronounce a funeral oration on his pred- ecessor , Claudius . Tacitus's account of this , with character- istic comment of his own interspersed , lets out some secrets of Nero's disposition and of the current temper of the ...
... Nero , was to pronounce a funeral oration on his pred- ecessor , Claudius . Tacitus's account of this , with character- istic comment of his own interspersed , lets out some secrets of Nero's disposition and of the current temper of the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 221 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Seite 206 - Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art, With pity, and with terror, tear my heart; And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where.
Seite 225 - As might, from the foregoing, be guessed, the well-worn phrase, mens sana in corpore sano, " a sound mind in a sound body,
Seite 225 - Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Seite 221 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye, suspended wait ; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost ; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay ; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day : The...
Seite 205 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
Seite 179 - O how oft shall he On Faith and changed Gods complain : and Seas Rough with black winds and storms Unwonted shall admire : Who now enjoys thee credulous, all Gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee ; of flattering gales Unmindful. Hapless they To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me in my vow'd Picture the sacred wall declares t' have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of Sea.
Seite 202 - To thee, the world its present homage pays, The harvest early, but mature the praise...
Seite 204 - And rarely av'rice taints the tuneful mind. Allow him but his plaything of a Pen, He ne'er rebels, or plots, like other men: Flight...
Seite 185 - Rejoices with a wholesome fear, And hopes in spite of pain ; If Winter bellow from the north, Soon the sweet Spring comes dancing forth, And Nature laughs again. What if thine Heaven be overcast, The dark appearance will not last ; Expect a brighter sky. The God that strings the silver bow Awakes sometimes the muses too, And lays his arrows by.