Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volumen 1

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J. Murray, 1864

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Página 28 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Página 55 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 28 - He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 137 - In fragments, choked up vaults, and frescos steeped In subterranean damps, where the owl peeped, Deeming it midnight : — Temples, baths, or halls ? Pronounce who can ; for all that Learning reaped From her research hath been, that these are walls — Behold the Imperial Mount ! 'tis thus the mighty falls.
Página 63 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Página 20 - Lord Chatham then enjoined him to read out of this work a passage in English, stopping, where he was not sure of the word, until the right one came, and then proceed.
Página 27 - Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! EPIGRAM.
Página 206 - If found within a certain distance from the capital, he must die, and it was death to any one to give him food or shelter. His property was destroyed, his family was penniless, and the people whom he had so faithfully served were the authors of his ruin. All this may be urged in his behalf, but still it would have been only consistent with Roman fortitude to have shown that he possessed something of the spirit of the fallen archangel.
Página 206 - ... of Cicero's weakness, that he says that good service would have been done to his reputation if his freedman Tiro, or whoever it was that collected and published his letters, had taken the whole of those he wrote to his wife, to his brother, and to Atticus during his exile, and thrown them into the fire. Middleton mourns over the weakness of his idol, but, determined if possible to excuse him, says, that " to have been as great in affliction as he was in prosperity would have been a perfection...
Página 121 - ... and founder of his country. A bright light shone through the streets from the lamps and torches set up at the doors, and the women showed lights from the tops of the houses, to honor Cicero, and to behold him returning home with a splendid train of the...

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