 | England - 1849 - 792 pages
...There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all th« imitations of the stage. There the historian of the...Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the c*usc of Sicily against Verres, and when, before » senate which still retained show of freedom, Tacitus... | |
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...There Siddons, m the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the...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
...There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the...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,... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the...allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to as the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the...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
...There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian 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... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the...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, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. 
