 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 - Seite 124von Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1849 - 792 Seiten
...There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gn/.ed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons,...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 Seiten
...great VOL. I. — NO. I. 36 kings and Commonwealth! 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 had still some show of freedom, Tacitus... | |
 | 1842 - 654 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 Seiten
...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 a scene...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 Seiten
...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 had still some show of freedom, Tacitus... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 Seiten
...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 had still some show of freedom, Tacitus... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1849 - 822 Seiten
...There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on & 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 Yerres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,... | |
 | 1849 - 742 Seiten
...the ambassadors of the 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,... | |
 | 1888 - 668 Seiten
...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... | |
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