 | National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - 746 pages
...has half redeemed his fame. There were seated the fair-haired daughters of the house of Brunswick; there the historian of the Roman Empire thought of...Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and where, before a senate that still preserved some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressors... | |
 | 1890 - 714 pages
...were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulations of an orator. tic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing...some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressors of Africa. There were seen side by side the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of... | |
 | Olivet College. Library - 1890 - 38 pages
...that wondrous historic spectacle which may have reminded Gibbon as Macaulay suggested, of "the time when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres,...Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa." And here you may wander the forests of Ardennes in the company of the greatest of poets, anticipating... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, George Dickson - 1890 - 186 pages
...house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitatations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1903 - 720 pages
...guarded the streets. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited an orator. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty,...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitation of the stage. ' I 'HE above is quoted from an Esperanto version of A passages taken from... | |
 | A. L. Stronach - 1891 - 290 pages
...House of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could...historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero1 pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained... | |
 | 1891 - 120 pages
...there the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no 1 other country in the world could present, there siddons,...beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all 1 the imitations of the stage, there the historian of the roman empire thought of the days when cicero... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1918 - 472 pages
...has half redeemed his fame. There were seated the fair-haired daughters of the house of Brunswick; there the historian of the Roman Empire thought of...Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and where, before a senate that still preserved some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressors... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pages
...House of Brunswick. There the Ambassadors of great Kings and Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could...Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. 4. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 344 pages
...with admiration on a spectacle which no other 10 country in the world could present. There Siddons,2 in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion...all the imitations of the stage. There the historian 3 of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero 4 pleaded the 15 cause of Sicily against Verres,... | |
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There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres... 
