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  • The maruaylous courage and ambition of a gentlewoman called Tanaquil, the Queene and wife of Tarqvinivs Priscvs the fift Roman king, with his persuasions and pollicy to hir husbande for his aduauncement to the kingdom, her lyke encouragement of Servivs Tvllivs, wherein also is described the ambition of one of the II. daughters of Servivs Tvllivs the sixt Roman king, and her cruelty towards her owne natural father: with other accidents chaunced in the new erected common welth of Rome, specially of the last Romane king Tarqvinivs Svperbvs, who with murder atteined the kingdome, with murder maynteined it, and by the murder and insolent lyfe of his sonne was with al his progeny banished.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Tanaquil Lupus: He might pay some attention to his English while he's at it.

    How debate is done in the hive 2008

  • Tanaquil Lupus: He might pay some attention to his English while he's at it.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Venus herself, Panthea, Cleopatra, Tarquin's Tanaquil, Herod's Mariamne, or [5392] Mary of Burgundy, if she were alive, would not match her.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The second portion of tonight's installements was Balanchine's "cowboy ballet" Western Symphony filmed in Paris on 1956, just a week before Tanaquil LeClercq contracted the polio that destroyed her career as a ballerina.

    Ballanchine on Film Part I 2004

  • Watching her long legs, neverending energy and smile, one could only but feel but sad and nostalgic for her amazing talent and for all the promise Tanaquil held.

    Seattle Bon Vivant: 2004

  • The second portion of tonight's installements was Balanchine's "cowboy ballet" Western Symphony filmed in Paris on 1956, just a week before Tanaquil LeClercq contracted the polio that destroyed her career as a ballerina.

    Ballanchine on Film Part I 2004

  • The second portion of tonight's installements was Balanchine's "cowboy ballet" Western Symphony filmed in Paris on 1956, just a week before Tanaquil LeClercq contracted the polio that destroyed her career as a ballerina.

    Seattle Bon Vivant: 2004

  • Watching her long legs, neverending energy and smile, one could only but feel but sad and nostalgic for her amazing talent and for all the promise Tanaquil held.

    Ballanchine on Film Part I 2004

  • Watching her long legs, neverending energy and smile, one could only but feel but sad and nostalgic for her amazing talent and for all the promise Tanaquil held.

    Ballanchine on Film Part I 2004

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