The Quarterly Review, Том 226John Murray, 1916 |
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... Lucan , an historical epic written little more than a century after the events which it professes to describe , when the sources now lost to us were still accessible , is invested with a more than literary interest . It has been the aim ...
... Lucan , an historical epic written little more than a century after the events which it professes to describe , when the sources now lost to us were still accessible , is invested with a more than literary interest . It has been the aim ...
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... Lucan is not the rhetoric of Livy . They lie as far apart as the period and the epigram . The natural propensity of Lucan's genius was never better given than in the anonymous epitaph : ' Cordova bare me , Nero slew . My lyre The duel ...
... Lucan is not the rhetoric of Livy . They lie as far apart as the period and the epigram . The natural propensity of Lucan's genius was never better given than in the anonymous epitaph : ' Cordova bare me , Nero slew . My lyre The duel ...
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... Lucan , again , who , we must in fairness remember , was cut off before his genius had begun to ripen and ere he had learned the lessons of life , we miss for the most part the touches of sympathy that enlist human interest and redeem ...
... Lucan , again , who , we must in fairness remember , was cut off before his genius had begun to ripen and ere he had learned the lessons of life , we miss for the most part the touches of sympathy that enlist human interest and redeem ...
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... Lucan's was not , but a poem and pamphlet in one , whose object was to glorify the cause which had been lost at Pharsalia . And accordingly it is not permissible to take a present- ment of Lucan's without more ado as historical . We ...
... Lucan's was not , but a poem and pamphlet in one , whose object was to glorify the cause which had been lost at Pharsalia . And accordingly it is not permissible to take a present- ment of Lucan's without more ado as historical . We ...
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... Lucan's , for it is found with close verbal coincidences in Valerius Maximus ( IV , 5 , 5 ) , who wrote before Lucan was born , and of whose two main sources Livy is known to have been one . When the manoeuvre by which Pompey had ...
... Lucan's , for it is found with close verbal coincidences in Valerius Maximus ( IV , 5 , 5 ) , who wrote before Lucan was born , and of whose two main sources Livy is known to have been one . When the manoeuvre by which Pompey had ...
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