The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... present chapter . For this purpose the brilliant sketch of Plutarch , who explicitly professes to write the life and not the history of the king , is on the whole more instructive than the detailed chronicle of Arrian . From both we ...
... present chapter . For this purpose the brilliant sketch of Plutarch , who explicitly professes to write the life and not the history of the king , is on the whole more instructive than the detailed chronicle of Arrian . From both we ...
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... present day . I will add but one more point , which is a curious illustration of the position of the Macedonian kings among their people . None of them contented himself with one wife , but either kept concubines , like all the kings in ...
... present day . I will add but one more point , which is a curious illustration of the position of the Macedonian kings among their people . None of them contented himself with one wife , but either kept concubines , like all the kings in ...
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... present and a trumpeter ready to summon the household troops . All manner of delicacies were brought from the sea and from remote provinces for his table . In other respects , in dress and manners , he drifted gradually into Persian ...
... present and a trumpeter ready to summon the household troops . All manner of delicacies were brought from the sea and from remote provinces for his table . In other respects , in dress and manners , he drifted gradually into Persian ...
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... present . Soon , I hope , you may be able to return in safety to your own house ; at any rate , God will provide what is best for you ; and I assure you , I will be careful not to prove unworthy of the favor He has bestowed upon me , in ...
... present . Soon , I hope , you may be able to return in safety to your own house ; at any rate , God will provide what is best for you ; and I assure you , I will be careful not to prove unworthy of the favor He has bestowed upon me , in ...
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... present plays in blank verse , the Marlowe meter being followed by Shakespeare and the principal later dramatists . Marlowe wrote the first historical tragedy , " Edward II . " The style was fixed by him . His dramatic production and ...
... present plays in blank verse , the Marlowe meter being followed by Shakespeare and the principal later dramatists . Marlowe wrote the first historical tragedy , " Edward II . " The style was fixed by him . His dramatic production and ...
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