 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, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations...  Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive - Page 83by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1912 - 92 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...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...painter, and the greatest scholar of the age. The speataclc had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of... | |
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded...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 Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded...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 pages
...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded...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,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 1847 - 474 pages
...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded...greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded...greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to as the thoughtful foreheads of... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded...which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thun* Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, iii., 205,206. dered against the oppressors of Africa. There... | |
 | England - 1849 - 822 pages
...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman 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, Tacitus thundered against... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded...greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of... | |
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