 There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 124by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
 | World - 1884 - 560 pages
...There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths I gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...There the embassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,... | |
 | Isaac Hinton Brown - 1886 - 342 pages
...There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...the stage. There the historian of the Roman empire (Gibbon) thought of the days when Cicero plead the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pages
...There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present There Siddons,...emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of th« stage. ful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 196 pages
...There the ambassadors of great Kings and Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a Senate which still retained some show of freedom,... | |
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 400 pages
...There the embassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 pages
...There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded • the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,... | |
 | 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 the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and where, before a senate that still preserved some show of freedom,... | |
 | 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...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, George Dickson - 1890 - 186 pages
...There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...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... | |
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