Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time .[..]Harper, 1896 |
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... Zenobia .. 260 XVII . Robert Burns ... Characterization by Thomas Carlyle 257 eray ... Westminster Abbey . ..... 350 347 270 270 Characterization by Leslie Stephen .. 366 1. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth .. viii CONTENTS .
... Zenobia .. 260 XVII . Robert Burns ... Characterization by Thomas Carlyle 257 eray ... Westminster Abbey . ..... 350 347 270 270 Characterization by Leslie Stephen .. 366 1. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth .. viii CONTENTS .
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... by any human eyes , excepting those of the author and the printer . The faults and the merits are ex- clusively my own . THE OVERTHROW OF ZENOBIA . [ INTRODUCTION . - The GIBBON'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS GREAT HISTORY . 259.
... by any human eyes , excepting those of the author and the printer . The faults and the merits are ex- clusively my own . THE OVERTHROW OF ZENOBIA . [ INTRODUCTION . - The GIBBON'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS GREAT HISTORY . 259.
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... ZENOBIA . [ INTRODUCTION . - The following extract is from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , the first volume of which was published in 1776. Sir Archibald Alison speaks of Gibbon as " the architect of a bridge over the ...
... ZENOBIA . [ INTRODUCTION . - The following extract is from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , the first volume of which was published in 1776. Sir Archibald Alison speaks of Gibbon as " the architect of a bridge over the ...
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... Zenobia was esteemed the most lovely as well as the most heroic of her sex . She was of a dark complexion ( for in speaking of a lady these trifles become important ) . Her teeth were of a pearly whiteness , and her large black eyes ...
... Zenobia was esteemed the most lovely as well as the most heroic of her sex . She was of a dark complexion ( for in speaking of a lady these trifles become important ) . Her teeth were of a pearly whiteness , and her large black eyes ...
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... Zenobia , a young man of a soft and effeminate temper , was killed with his father . But Mæonius obtained only the pleasure of revenge by this bloody deed . He had scarcely time to assume the title of Augustus before he was sacrificed ...
... Zenobia , a young man of a soft and effeminate temper , was killed with his father . But Mæonius obtained only the pleasure of revenge by this bloody deed . He had scarcely time to assume the title of Augustus before he was sacrificed ...
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