 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 oldal
...great Kings and Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on the scene. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when, before a senate which... | |
 | 1853 - 458 oldal
...great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Ye ere? and when, before a senate which had still some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 oldal
...and beauty; the ambassadors of kings and commonwealths gazed on a spectacle which no other country could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres. There sat, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 oldal
...and beauty ; the ambassadors of kings and commonwealths gazed on a spectacle which no other country could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of SicUy against Verres. There sat, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 oldal
...could present. There Siddous, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on the scene. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when, before a senate which had still some show of freedom, Cicero and Tacitus thundered against the oppressors... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 oldal
...admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There, Siddons,* in the pride of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene..."^surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There, Gibbon, the historian of the Roman Empire, thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Cicily... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 oldal
...great Kings and CommonIrealfhs gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country In the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 oldal
...great Kings and Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 644 oldal
...gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Sicldons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion...Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 oldal
...Kings and Common trealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which in other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the causo of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,... | |
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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. 
