Word: victrix
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...company's arrangement of names is for purposes of euphony; the cover's arrangement of faces is for purposes of composition. Ars victrix...
...campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris rapit. Sed de argumento satis superque dictumst...
...purr "I had the radio on" when she posed for her now historic nude calendar picture was after a historic precedent. When Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese and sister of Napoleon, was chided for having posed in the nude for Canova's famous statue of her as Venus Victrix, she calmly stated: "I wasn't cold with a fire in the room...
...qualities; indeed, his poems form the epitome of his character. He has never been known to write a poem to order; the nearest approach he made to doing so was after the War, when the Armistice seemed to call for an heroic ode. which he penned and called Brittannia Victrix, and which is hardly characteristic of his works...
...writing critiques of John Milton and John Keats. He published a volume†† of new verses only a few weeks ago but there were no 'excited cable dispatches over the event. After the War, as became his station, he did deliver himself of an heroic ode, Brittannia Victrix, but a delicate bit called "Cheddar Pinks" in his new book is more characteristic. Indeed, so lost in pure artistry is Laureate Bridges that he quite forgot himself in a satiric bit addressed "To Catullus," referring to his immediate predecessors, Laureates Tennyson and Austin, as "those two pretty Laertes...