The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1818 - English literature |
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... its vast area recalls the bloody games of the Romans , and the poet has vied with the memorable sculptor who produced the dying Gladiator , superior in this , that equalling the artist in his faculty of impressing on the fancy the agonies , ...
... its vast area recalls the bloody games of the Romans , and the poet has vied with the memorable sculptor who produced the dying Gladiator , superior in this , that equalling the artist in his faculty of impressing on the fancy the agonies , ...
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