| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 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 Verrcs, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 oldal
...gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddor.s, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion...pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, bef-i:v a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered againse the oppressor... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 oldal
...which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic lieauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the...Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 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...stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought o; the days when Cieero pleaded the cause of Sieily against Verres, and when, before a senate which... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 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 - 1873 - 1052 oldal
...admiration on a spectacle wluch no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime qf her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene...Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 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...imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Eoman empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres ; and when,... | |
| Edward Foss - 1874 - 376 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... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 oldal
...great kings and commonwealths gazed in 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 Varres, and when before a senate, which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against... | |
| 1918 - 498 oldal
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; against Verres, and when, before a senate which had...thundered against the oppressor of Africa." There an Englishman, who had, by the power of England, been sent to rule over "dusky nations living under... | |
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