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... rest of Europe for a series of cen- turies . Cedite Romani scriptores , cedite Graii ! Your Dionysius , your Pisander , Tiberius , Nero , Caligula , Domitian , Caracalla , and Commodus , must retire to the back - ground of the picture ...
... rest of Europe for a series of cen- turies . Cedite Romani scriptores , cedite Graii ! Your Dionysius , your Pisander , Tiberius , Nero , Caligula , Domitian , Caracalla , and Commodus , must retire to the back - ground of the picture ...
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... rest of mankind . " I know not ( says Dr. Johnson ) why any but a school - boy in his declamation should whine over the commonwealth of Rome , which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind . " Boswell's Life of Johnson . Il ...
... rest of mankind . " I know not ( says Dr. Johnson ) why any but a school - boy in his declamation should whine over the commonwealth of Rome , which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind . " Boswell's Life of Johnson . Il ...
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... rest : That cautious humble guide experience finds Scorn'd or neglected by heroick minds ; And yet no safer pilot can be near , 345 Through life's rough tide man's dangerous course to steer . DECEMVIRS . DECEM VIRS . ROMAN LAWS ...
... rest : That cautious humble guide experience finds Scorn'd or neglected by heroick minds ; And yet no safer pilot can be near , 345 Through life's rough tide man's dangerous course to steer . DECEMVIRS . DECEM VIRS . ROMAN LAWS ...
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... rest , See the sad sire transfix his daughter's breast . 66 Appius ! ( he cries ) by the dear blood thus shed , " To sure destruction I devote thy head . ' 370 Allatas à Græcia leges decem principes lecti , jubente populo , con ...
... rest , See the sad sire transfix his daughter's breast . 66 Appius ! ( he cries ) by the dear blood thus shed , " To sure destruction I devote thy head . ' 370 Allatas à Græcia leges decem principes lecti , jubente populo , con ...
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... rest , 530 Find harbour in the insulted Fabia's breast . To her scorn'd home , dejected , she returns ; Now pines with envy , now with anger burns ; Health's vermeil hue her fading cheeks forsook , And Niobe seem'd pictur'd in her look ...
... rest , 530 Find harbour in the insulted Fabia's breast . To her scorn'd home , dejected , she returns ; Now pines with envy , now with anger burns ; Health's vermeil hue her fading cheeks forsook , And Niobe seem'd pictur'd in her look ...
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