 | 1849 - 792 oldal
...house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gn/.ed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could...beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all th« imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 oldal
...the Ambassadors of great VOL. I. — NO. I. 36 kings and Commonwealth! gazed -with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could...Sicily against Verres ; and when, before a senate which had still some show of freedom, Tacitus had thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen,... | |
 | 1842 - 654 oldal
...house of Brunswick. There the Ambassadors "I great Kings and Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, m the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 oldal
...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...Sicily against Verres; and when, before a senate which had still some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 oldal
...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...Sicily against Verres ; and when, before a senate which had still some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen,... | |
 | 1849 - 742 oldal
...of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of the great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could...which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thun* Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, iii., 205,206. dered against the oppressors of Africa. There... | |
 | 1849 - 822 oldal
...house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on & spectacle which no other country in the world could...days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Yerres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against... | |
 | 1888 - 668 oldal
...Hastings,' mentions her having been present at the trial of Hastings in Westminster Hall, February 13, 1788. "There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty,...scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage." Four years before she bad been painted by Sir Joshua Beynolds as the Tragic Muse. Probably this great... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 oldal
...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...cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a sen«te which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.... | |
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There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres... 
