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Venus herself, Panthea, Cleopatra, Tarquin's Tanaquil, Herod's Mariamne, or [5392] Mary of Burgundy, if she were alive, would not match her.
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The stanza, and the poem as a whole, is interested in the psychology of desire: pleasure enters at the eye, and might be satisfied with gazing on beauty were it not for the 'greater uproar' tempting Tarquin's 'veins' in the form of raging lust.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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Following Tarquin's instructions, they found an ancient shuttle waiting on a deserted platform, a marked contrast to the busy docks around them.
The Fearful Summons Flinn, Denny Martin 1995
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Tarquin's rape of Lucretia caused the fall of the tyrants and the beginning of the Roman Republic.
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Let Louisa give some account of Tarquin's government first.
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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On Tarquin's refusing to give it, she went away and burnt three of the books.
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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While one engaged Tarquin's attention, the other struck him a fatal blow with his axe.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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What occurred to interrupt the tranquillity of Tarquin's reign?
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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With Tarquin's ravishing strides, toward his design
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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