I have read through Seneca, and an affected empty scribbler he is.

I have read Tacitus again, and, by the bye, I will tell you a curious circumstance relating to that matter.

In my younger days I always thought the Annals a prodigiously superior work to the History.

I was surprised to find that the Annals seemed cold and poor to me on the last reading.

I began to think that I had overrated Tacitus.