 | 1849 - 792 páginas
...great kings and commonwealths gn/.ed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...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 páginas
...36 kings and Commonwealth! gazed -with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...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 had... | |
 | 1842 - 654 páginas
...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...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 thundered... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 páginas
...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...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 had... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 páginas
...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...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 thundered... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...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...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 thundered... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1849 - 742 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1849 - 822 páginas
...great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on & spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her...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... | |
 | 1888 - 668 páginas
...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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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. 
