Plutarch's Lives, 6. kötetBrannan and Morforl, 1811 |
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141. oldal - Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
236. oldal - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
244. oldal - Upon this he built himself a subterraneous study, which remained to our times. Thither he repaired every day to form his action and exercise his voice ; and he would often stay there for two or three months together, shaving one side of his head, that, if he should happen to be ever so desirous of going abroad, the shame of appearing in that condition might keep him in.
332. oldal - As for Cicero, he was carried to Astyra, where, finding a vessel, he immediately went on board and coasted along to Circaeum with a favourable wind. The pilots were preparing immediately to sail from thence, but whether it was that he feared the sea, or had not yet given up all his hopes in...
303. oldal - Accordingly, when Cicero went up, it was expected that he would take the customary oath ; but silence being made, instead of the usual form, he adopted one that was new and singular. The purport of it was that " he had saved his country. and preserved the empire ; " and all the people joined in it.
39. oldal - Upon which he drew back, and resigned himself quietly to his fate. Agnonides then read the decree he had prepared ; according to which, the people were to declare by their suffrages whether the prisoners appeared to be guilty or not; and if they appeared so, they were to suffer death. When the decree was read, some' called for an additional clause for putting Phocion to the torture before execution...
244. oldal - but I will soon provide a remedy, if you will repeat to me some speech in Euripides or Sophocles.' When Demosthenes had done, Satyrus pronounced the same speech, and he did it with such propriety of action, and so much in character, that it appeared to the orator quite a different passage. He now understood so well...
19. oldal - Just scaped impending death, when now again We twice as far had furrow'd back the main, Once more I raise my voice ; my friends afraid With mild entreaties my design dissuade : " What boots the godless giant to provoke, Whose arm may sink us at a single stroke?
29. oldal - By justice sway'd, by tender pity press'd: 111 fits it me, whose friends are sunk to beasts, To quaff thy bowls, or riot in thy feasts. Me would'st thou please? for them thy cares employ, And them to me restore, and me to joy.
248. oldal - As for his personal defects, Demetrius the Phalerean gives us an account of the remedies he applied to them ; and he says he had it from Demosthenes in his old age. The hesitation and stammering of his tongue he corrected by practising to speak with pebbles in his mouth ; and he strengthened his voice by running or walliing up-hill, and pronouncing some passage in an oration or a poem, during the difficulty of breath which that caused.