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... Roman , or Greek , history , as well as quoting from classic authors . Alexander and Julius Caesar are recognised giants , prototypes of military conquest and imperial greatness : see how Hamlet introduces them into his graveyard ...
... Roman , or Greek , history , as well as quoting from classic authors . Alexander and Julius Caesar are recognised giants , prototypes of military conquest and imperial greatness : see how Hamlet introduces them into his graveyard ...
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... Roman eagle , wing'd From the spongy south to this part of the west , There vanish'd in the sunbeams ; which portends , Unless my sins abuse my divination , Success to the Roman host . ( IV . ii . 346. ) His divination is wrong ...
... Roman eagle , wing'd From the spongy south to this part of the west , There vanish'd in the sunbeams ; which portends , Unless my sins abuse my divination , Success to the Roman host . ( IV . ii . 346. ) His divination is wrong ...
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... Roman eagle , From south to west on wing soaring aloft , Lessen'd herself , and in the beams o ' the sun So vanish'd : which foreshow'd our princely eagle , The imperial Caesar , should again unite His favour with the radiant Cymbeline ...
... Roman eagle , From south to west on wing soaring aloft , Lessen'd herself , and in the beams o ' the sun So vanish'd : which foreshow'd our princely eagle , The imperial Caesar , should again unite His favour with the radiant Cymbeline ...
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OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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