Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 13
... probably be recalled from the command assigned to him by the Manilian law . " " Let him come , the pupil of Sylla's butcheries , -the gleaner of Lucullus's trophies , -the thief - taker of the Senate . " " For Heaven's sake , Caius ...
... probably be recalled from the command assigned to him by the Manilian law . " " Let him come , the pupil of Sylla's butcheries , -the gleaner of Lucullus's trophies , -the thief - taker of the Senate . " " For Heaven's sake , Caius ...
Page 39
... probably . CALLIDEMUS . Whom do you mean by the first men in Athens ? Callicles . * SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . A sacrilegious , impious , unfeeling ruffian ! Hippomachus . SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . A fool , who can talk of nothing but ...
... probably . CALLIDEMUS . Whom do you mean by the first men in Athens ? Callicles . * SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . A sacrilegious , impious , unfeeling ruffian ! Hippomachus . SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . A fool , who can talk of nothing but ...
Page 53
... probably have published translations and imitations of French romances " by a person of quality . " I am not sure that we should have had Lear if Shakspeare had been able to read Sophocles . But these circumstances , while they foster ...
... probably have published translations and imitations of French romances " by a person of quality . " I am not sure that we should have had Lear if Shakspeare had been able to read Sophocles . But these circumstances , while they foster ...
Page 69
... probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind . Yet there is probably no writer equally concise . ) This per- fection of style is the principal merit of the Paradiso , which , as I have already ...
... probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind . Yet there is probably no writer equally concise . ) This per- fection of style is the principal merit of the Paradiso , which , as I have already ...
Page 79
... probably , like most critics of her sex , preferred a gaudy to a majestic style . Be this as it may , he no sooner changes his subject than he changes his manner . When he speaks of the wrongs and degradation of Italy , devas- tated by ...
... probably , like most critics of her sex , preferred a gaudy to a majestic style . Be this as it may , he no sooner changes his subject than he changes his manner . When he speaks of the wrongs and degradation of Italy , devas- tated by ...
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