The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... Rome . A rival of these parasites Tiro , has not been preserved ; for he was was the aretalogus , whom we know not how as thorough a table - talker as Socrates him- to match in our own days . He combined self , and his mots preserved in ...
... Rome . A rival of these parasites Tiro , has not been preserved ; for he was was the aretalogus , whom we know not how as thorough a table - talker as Socrates him- to match in our own days . He combined self , and his mots preserved in ...
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... Rome hoping vainly to be made a cardinal . We remark that he has a bad cold . It is because he has returned without a hat ! ' whispers M. de Bautru . Yonder is old Bishop Scarron of Grenoble , with the beard which men call a barbe en ...
... Rome hoping vainly to be made a cardinal . We remark that he has a bad cold . It is because he has returned without a hat ! ' whispers M. de Bautru . Yonder is old Bishop Scarron of Grenoble , with the beard which men call a barbe en ...
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... Rome , now generally admitted to be Me- nander . M. W. Guizot has prefixed this statue as an engraving to his title - page , and opened his work with a description of it , as the best introduction to the character of the poet , and of ...
... Rome , now generally admitted to be Me- nander . M. W. Guizot has prefixed this statue as an engraving to his title - page , and opened his work with a description of it , as the best introduction to the character of the poet , and of ...
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... Rome , yet wrote for an ungenial audience , for a stage on which the drama was never altogether naturalised - who had to contend on that stage against the popular rope - dancer , * See the two prologues to the Hecyra— Ut neque spectari ...
... Rome , yet wrote for an ungenial audience , for a stage on which the drama was never altogether naturalised - who had to contend on that stage against the popular rope - dancer , * See the two prologues to the Hecyra— Ut neque spectari ...
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... Rome . most instructive painter of ordinary life , Terence , and the Latin comic writers , bor- row their manners as well as their plots and characters : all is Athenian , all are copies of a copy . Wherever they attempt to mingle the ...
... Rome . most instructive painter of ordinary life , Terence , and the Latin comic writers , bor- row their manners as well as their plots and characters : all is Athenian , all are copies of a copy . Wherever they attempt to mingle the ...
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