| James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the Ambassadors of great Kings and Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...stage. 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... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...stage. 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Hastings.) - Colonial administrators - 1883 - 244 pages
...young daughters of the house 20 of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great Kings and Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene sur25 passing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the... | |
| 1883 - 528 pages
...admiration on a spectacle which no other country iu the world could present. There Siddons,* in the pride of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene...the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire t thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres ; and when, before a Senate... | |
| World - 1884 - 560 pages
...young daughters of the house of • Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths I gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...stage. 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... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 364 pages
...fairhaired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the embassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...stage. 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... | |
| Isaac Hinton Brown - Elocution - 1886 - 342 pages
...fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...the stage. There the historian of the Roman empire (Gibbon) thought of the days when Cicero plead the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of th« stage. ful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 196 pages
...fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great Kings and Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...stage. 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... | |
| Arthur Martin Wheeler - Great Britain - 1886 - 402 pages
...fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the embassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other...stage. 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... | |
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