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 , at which time entering into the inner treasury to take the money there accumulated , Metellus , being tribune , forbade him whereunto Cæsar said , " That if he did not desist , he would lay him dead in the place . " And presently ...
... Rome , at which time entering into the inner treasury to take the money there accumulated , Metellus , being tribune , forbade him whereunto Cæsar said , " That if he did not desist , he would lay him dead in the place . " And presently ...
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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 . Still it was , in a great degree , the birth of the times . The old Aristo- phanic comedy we might almost call part of the democratic constitution of Athens .. The drama was not the amusement only , the idle pastime , of the ...
... Rome . Still it was , in a great degree , the birth of the times . The old Aristo- phanic comedy we might almost call part of the democratic constitution of Athens .. The drama was not the amusement only , the idle pastime , of the ...
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... Rome that the comedy of ordinary life reached . its perfection with Menander . Athens , ' Tous ( Ménander , Diphile , Philémon ) ont re- though she had lost her pre - eminence in connu dans ce tragique leur modèle et leur maître . On ...
... Rome that the comedy of ordinary life reached . its perfection with Menander . Athens , ' Tous ( Ménander , Diphile , Philémon ) ont re- though she had lost her pre - eminence in connu dans ce tragique leur modèle et leur maître . On ...
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