The History of Rome, Bind 1

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J. Taylor, 1828

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Side 5 - Meanwhile the charm of first discovery is our own, and as we explore this magnificent field of inquiry, the sentiment of a great historian of our times may continually be present to our minds, that " he who calls what has vanished back again into being, enjoys a bliss like that of creating*.
Side 161 - Iliad soon (hall own a greater lay; that, when death was releasing him from the fetters of civil observances, he wished to destroy what in those solemn moments he could not but view with melancholy, as the groundwork of a false reputation ; this is what renders him estimable, and makes us indulgent to all the weaknesses of his poem.
Side 213 - The poems out of which what we call the history of the Roman kings was resolved into a prose narrative, were different from the nenia...
Side 214 - Regillus ; and this lay of the Tarquins even in its prose shape is still inexpressibly poetical, nor is it less unlike real history. The arrival of Tarquinius the Lucumo, at Rome; his deeds and victories; his death; then the marvellous story of Servius ; Tullia's...
Side v - The History of Rome was treated, during the first two centuries after the revival of letters, with the same prostration of the understanding and judgment to the written letter that had been handed down, and the same fearfulness of going beyond it, which prevailed in all the other branches of knowledge.
Side 213 - Kings was resolved into a prose narrative, were different from the nenia in form, and of great extent; consisting partly of lays united into a uniform whole, partly of such as were detached and without any necessary connexion. The history of Romulus is an epopee by itself: on Numa there can only have been short lays. Tullus, the story of the Horatii, and of the destruction of Alba, form an epic whole, like the poem on Romulus: indeed here Livy has preserved a fragment of the poem entire, in the lyrical...
Side 160 - Perhaps it is a problem that cannot be solved, to form an epic poem out of an argument which has not lived for centuries in popular songs and tales as common national property, so that the cycle of stories which comprises it, and all the persons who act a part in it, are familiar to every one. Assuredly...
Side 484 - If Rome and Latium were confederate states, on a footing of equality, in the room of that supremacy which lasted but for a brief space after the revolution, they must have possessed the chief command alternately ; and this would explain why the Roman dictators were appointed for only six months, and why they came to have twenty-four lictors.
Side 479 - ... from its being said, immediately after the mention of the vow, that the dictator promised rewards to the first two who should scale the wall of the enemy's camp, I...
Side viii - Germans) had now," he says, on page viii. of the English translation, " a literature worthy of our nation and language; we had Lessing and Goethe : and this literature comprised, what none had yet, a great part of the Greek and Roman, not copied, but, as it were, reproduced. For this Germany is indebted to Voss, whom our grandchildren's children and grandchildren must extol as their benefactor ; with whom a new age for the knowledge of antiquity begins; inasmuch as he succeeded in eliciting out of...

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