 Had he lived,' says Mr. de Vere, ' he must have created it. The Romans, whose legions with difficulty resisted the phalanx when wielded by Pyrrhus of Epirus, must have sunk, despite the patriotic confidence of Livy, before the conqueror. The imperial...  Alexander the great, a dramatic poem - Página xxpor Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1874Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...it, ' to make,' in Dryden's words, ' one city of the universe.' ' Had he lived,' says Mr. de Vere, ' he must have created it. The Romans, whose legions...inheriting their gifts, and exaggerating at once their good aud their evil, the virtues that win power, and the earthly aim that degrades it, would have been an... | |
 | 1896 - 926 páginas
...phalanx when wielded l>y Pyrrhus of Epirus, must have sunk, despite the patriotic confidence of I.ivy. before the conqueror. The imperial series would then...been an empire of intellect, not of law; and over its subject realms there would have been scattered, not Roman municipalities, but Greek schools. What the... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1898 - 240 páginas
...to make,' in Dryden's fine phrase, ' one city of the universe.' ' Had he lived,' says Mr. de Vere, ' he must have created it. The Romans, whose legions...an empire of Intellect, not of Law ; and over its subject realms there would have been scattered, not Roman municipalities, but Greek schools.' What... | |
 | 1896 - 926 páginas
...it. The Romans, whose legions with difficulty resisted the phalanx when wielded by Pyrrhus of Epirns, must have sunk, despite the patriotic confidence of...which resumed all its predecessors, inheriting their irifts, and exaggerating at once their good and their evil, the virtues that win power, and the earthly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 598 páginas
...it, ' to make,' in Dryden's words, 'one city of the universe.' ' Had he lived,' says Mr. de Vere, ' he must have created it. The Romans, whose legions...an empire of Intellect, not of Law ; and over its subject realms there would have been scattered, not Roman municipalities, but Greek schools.' What... | |
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