 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
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1892 - 544 pages
...of the house of Brunswick; and he shows his appreciation of the drama by recalling Siddons, who, " in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion...scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage." For young pupils, the study of formal rhetoric is not profitable. They are not able to comprehend it... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1893 - 240 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 260 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 30 imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 296 pages
...There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle 10 which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. 15 The sergeants... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1904 - 1196 pages
...which no other country in the world could present. There Hiddons, in the prime of her majestic boauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the Btage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...gazed in admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,1 in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion...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,... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 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 limitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded... | |
 | 1906 - 484 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,... | |
 | 1903 - 626 pages
...ambassadors of great kings and common">s gam! with admiration on a V which no other country in rid could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres ; and when, before a senate which had still some show of freedom, Tacitus... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1906 - 278 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,...imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Boman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when,... | |
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