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... admiration of the whole army . Young Hamilcar was restored to them , thought the veterans , as they saw in him the same animated look and penetrating eye , the same expression , the same features . Soon he made them feel that his ...
... admiration of the whole army . Young Hamilcar was restored to them , thought the veterans , as they saw in him the same animated look and penetrating eye , the same expression , the same features . Soon he made them feel that his ...
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William Cleaver Wilkinson. plished translators have given us Tacitus also in a style equally admirable . The six months ' dictatorship of Fabius is now nearing its close . The saviour of his country hands over his army to the consuls ...
William Cleaver Wilkinson. plished translators have given us Tacitus also in a style equally admirable . The six months ' dictatorship of Fabius is now nearing its close . The saviour of his country hands over his army to the consuls ...
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... admirable speech for them - which we must omit . The effect was powerful — it was likely to prove overwhelming - in favor of a ransoming of the prisoners . At the critical moment , however , an old - fashioned Roman voice was found to ...
... admirable speech for them - which we must omit . The effect was powerful — it was likely to prove overwhelming - in favor of a ransoming of the prisoners . At the critical moment , however , an old - fashioned Roman voice was found to ...
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... admirably . It is not romance , it is history , with Tacitus . The color is not rose any longer . It is stern , often livid , likeness to life . If Livy is Claude Lorraine , Tacitus is Salvator Rosa : if Livy is Titian , Taci- tus is ...
... admirably . It is not romance , it is history , with Tacitus . The color is not rose any longer . It is stern , often livid , likeness to life . If Livy is Claude Lorraine , Tacitus is Salvator Rosa : if Livy is Titian , Taci- tus is ...
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... admiration of some- thing in the dying of this Roman exquisite , of an evil time , that goes toward redeeming the ignoble of his life . Thrasea is almost as much the chosen historical favorite of Tacitus , as William of Orange ...
... admiration of some- thing in the dying of this Roman exquisite , of an evil time , that goes toward redeeming the ignoble of his life . Thrasea is almost as much the chosen historical favorite of Tacitus , as William of Orange ...
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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.