Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Том 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... Tacitus ; and the classical histories may almost be called romances founded in fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words ...
... Tacitus ; and the classical histories may almost be called romances founded in fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words ...
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... to Sir Harcourt Lees . Of the Latin historians , Tacitus was certainly the great- est . His style indeed is not only faulty in itself , but is , in VOL . I. 18 some respects , peculiarly unfit for historical composition . He HISTORY . 205.
... to Sir Harcourt Lees . Of the Latin historians , Tacitus was certainly the great- est . His style indeed is not only faulty in itself , but is , in VOL . I. 18 some respects , peculiarly unfit for historical composition . He HISTORY . 205.
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... Tacitus superior to the best which can be quoted from Thu- cydides . But they are not enchased and relieved with the same skill . They are far more striking when extracted from the body of the work to which they belong , than when they ...
... Tacitus superior to the best which can be quoted from Thu- cydides . But they are not enchased and relieved with the same skill . They are far more striking when extracted from the body of the work to which they belong , than when they ...
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... Tacitus , by a model furnished from without . Hamlet is to Tiberius what the Laocoon is to the Newton of Roubilliac . In this part of his art Tacitus certainly had neither equal nor second among the ancient historians . Herodotus ...
... Tacitus , by a model furnished from without . Hamlet is to Tiberius what the Laocoon is to the Newton of Roubilliac . In this part of his art Tacitus certainly had neither equal nor second among the ancient historians . Herodotus ...
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... Tacitus . His Pericles , his Nicias , his Cleon , his Brasidas , are happily discriminated . The lines are few , the coloring faint ; but the general air and expres- sion is caught . " We begin , like the priest in Don Quixote's library ...
... Tacitus . His Pericles , his Nicias , his Cleon , his Brasidas , are happily discriminated . The lines are few , the coloring faint ; but the general air and expres- sion is caught . " We begin , like the priest in Don Quixote's library ...
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