Literary Hours; Or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical, Volumen2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804 |
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... Tacitus , Pliny , and Juvenal , had acquired , by the sober verdict of Time , unperishable glory ; and it may not be useless , or uninteresting , previous to our enter , ing upon the direct subject of these papers , to present the ...
... Tacitus , Pliny , and Juvenal , had acquired , by the sober verdict of Time , unperishable glory ; and it may not be useless , or uninteresting , previous to our enter , ing upon the direct subject of these papers , to present the ...
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... Tacitus ; and Mr. Melmoth , the elegant translator of this piece , is decidedly of opinion that it was not the production of any one of those celebrated writers . It was , however , undoubtedly , written by Tacitus ; as is proved de ...
... Tacitus ; and Mr. Melmoth , the elegant translator of this piece , is decidedly of opinion that it was not the production of any one of those celebrated writers . It was , however , undoubtedly , written by Tacitus ; as is proved de ...
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... Tacitus , in four volumes , octavo , 1788. This proof is derived from the following passages in the Dialogue on Oratory , compared with one of Pliny's Epistles . In the ninth section of the Dialogue , we find these words : " Adjice ...
... Tacitus , in four volumes , octavo , 1788. This proof is derived from the following passages in the Dialogue on Oratory , compared with one of Pliny's Epistles . In the ninth section of the Dialogue , we find these words : " Adjice ...
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... TACITUS , the contemporary and friend of Quintilian , and whose writings , as hath been justly remarked by Gibbon , will instruct the last generations of mankind . * " Superest adhuc , et exornat ætatis nostræ gloriam , vir sæculorum ...
... TACITUS , the contemporary and friend of Quintilian , and whose writings , as hath been justly remarked by Gibbon , will instruct the last generations of mankind . * " Superest adhuc , et exornat ætatis nostræ gloriam , vir sæculorum ...
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... with historical genius . In Tacitus , the secret mo- tives of action , the causes of events , revolu- tions , conspiracies , and political manoeuvres , / are traced from their very source , with a. 398 NO . XXXVII . LITERARY.
... with historical genius . In Tacitus , the secret mo- tives of action , the causes of events , revolu- tions , conspiracies , and political manoeuvres , / are traced from their very source , with a. 398 NO . XXXVII . LITERARY.
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