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William B. Cohen, Review, International Journal of African Historical Studies 10 (1977), 300–03; compare with a hostile review by Myro Echenberg in Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 11 (1977), 157–59, who suggests that Deschamps was not a democratic socialist but a “romantic reactionary.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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William B. Cohen, Review, International Journal of African Historical Studies 10 (1977), 300–03; compare with a hostile review by Myro Echenberg in Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 11 (1977), 157–59, who suggests that Deschamps was not a democratic socialist but a “romantic reactionary.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Sicyonians, Orthagoras became their tyrant, and subsequently Myro and
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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It seems to help us to comprehend the little rites and playful superstitions of the Greeks; to see why Myro built a tomb for the grasshopper she loved and lost; why the shining hair of
Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888
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There was a Cupid by Praxiteles, and a bronze Hercules by Myro, and two Canoephrae by Polycletus These were treasures which all the world came to see, and which were open to be seen by all the world.
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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The most celebrated one among these I quoted in a former lecture -- the poem about the little Greek girl Myro who made a tomb for her grasshopper and cried over it.
Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Hercules from the chisel of Myro; and two bronze figures,
Roman life in the days of Cicero Alfred John Church 1870
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It is not in strength, for Myro and Ofellius were not happy; not in wealth, for Croesus was not happy; not in power, for the Consuls were not happy; not in all these together, for Nero and Sardanapulus and Agamemnon sighed and wept and tore their hair, and were the slaves of circumstances and the dupes of semblances.
Character Samuel Smiles 1858
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= Myro =, a statuary of Eleu´thĕræ, who carved a cow so true to nature that even bulls mistook it for a living animal.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Lybian ivory; cups of crystal; all sorts of silver plate, the masterpieces of Myro, and the handiwork of Praxiteles, and the engravings of Phidias.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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