TacitusBlackwood, 1873 - 194 pages |
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... narrative to write with impartiality about even a Trajan . In the failure of materials for his life , we may endeavour to learn something of Tacitus from himself . If it be true that every great portrait - painter intro- 6 duces upon ...
... narrative to write with impartiality about even a Trajan . In the failure of materials for his life , we may endeavour to learn something of Tacitus from himself . If it be true that every great portrait - painter intro- 6 duces upon ...
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... narrative something of his own feelings . It cannot escape any attentive reader of the Annals , ' in which the writer's proclivities are far more patent than in the History , ' that he was an aristocrat , in the sense that the proud ...
... narrative something of his own feelings . It cannot escape any attentive reader of the Annals , ' in which the writer's proclivities are far more patent than in the History , ' that he was an aristocrat , in the sense that the proud ...
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... narratives may have been cast in the mould of his own eloquence ; and if so , then we may easily understand why " dignity " is ascribed to his public pleadings . 66 66 If we infer the disposition of Tacitus from the report 10 TACITUS .
... narratives may have been cast in the mould of his own eloquence ; and if so , then we may easily understand why " dignity " is ascribed to his public pleadings . 66 66 If we infer the disposition of Tacitus from the report 10 TACITUS .
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... narrative whether he described Agri- cola's naval officers as having completed or merely forwarded the discovery . He tells us that after Agri- cola's seventh campaign closed with the summer of 84 A.D. ' AGRICOLA . 31.
... narrative whether he described Agri- cola's naval officers as having completed or merely forwarded the discovery . He tells us that after Agri- cola's seventh campaign closed with the summer of 84 A.D. ' AGRICOLA . 31.
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... narrative . They have doubt- less observed in the most attractive historical works frequent references to monkish ... narration . They abound in anecdote ; their by - ways are often not less . pleasant than the main road ; they take the ...
... narrative . They have doubt- less observed in the most attractive historical works frequent references to monkish ... narration . They abound in anecdote ; their by - ways are often not less . pleasant than the main road ; they take the ...
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Page 178 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was...
Page 182 - He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 133 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold...
Page 27 - In their funerals there is no pomp; they simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spices on the funeral pile. The arms of the dead man and in some cases his horse are consigned to the fire. A turf mound forms the tomb.
Page 39 - To pass an entire day and night in drinking disgraces no one. Their quarrels, as might be expected with intoxicated people, are seldom fought out with mere abuse, but commonly with wounds and bloodshed. Yet it is at their feasts that they generally consult on the reconciliation of enemies, on the forming of matrimonial alliances, on the choice of chiefs, finally even on peace and war, for they think that at no time is the mind more open to simplicity of purpose or more warmed to noble aspirations....
Page 30 - For my own part, I agree with those who think that the tribes of Germany are free from all taint of intermarriages with foreign nations, and that they appear as a distinct, unmixed race, like none but themselves. Hence, too, the same physical peculiarities throughout so vast a population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames, fit only for a sudden exertion. They are less able to bear laborious work. Heat and thirst they cannot in the least endure; to cold and hunger their climate and...
Page 39 - Strangely enough they make games of hazard a serious occupation even when sober, and so venturesome are they about gaining or losing, that, when every other resource has failed, on the last and final throw they stake the freedom of their own persons. The loser goes into voluntary slavery; though the younger and stronger, he suffers himself to be bound and sold.
Page 138 - They persisted ; and he, though on the one hand he feared the scandal of a fruitless attempt, yet, on the other, was induced by the entreaties of the men and by the language of his flatterers to hope for success. At last he ordered that the opinion of physicians should be taken, as to whether such blindness and infirmity were within the reach of human skill. They discussed the matter from different points of view. " In the one case," they said, " the faculty of sight was not wholly ' destroyed, and...
Page 151 - Judaea, were to acquire universal empire. These mysterious prophecies had pointed to Vespasian and Titus, but the common people, with the usual blindness of ambition, had interpreted these mighty destinies of themselves, and could not be brought even by disasters to believe the truth. I have heard that the total number of the besieged, of every age and both sexes, amounted to six hundred thousand.
Page 95 - I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. Four emperors perished by the sword. There were three civil wars; there were more with foreign enemies; there were often wars that had both characters at once. There was success in the East, and disaster in the West. There were disturbances in Illyricum; Gaul wavered in its allegiance; Britain was thoroughly subdued and immediately abandoned...