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Page 28 - Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up.
Page 9 - Praxiteles sculptured the group of the dying children of Niobe in the temple of Apollo Sosianus.
Page 15 - BC 34, who was consul in 32, and who commanded the left wing of Antony's fleet at the battle of Actium.