Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volumen 1Murray, 1869 - 557 páginas |
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... perhaps awakening in his mind that eager desire for distinction and applause which became the ruling passion of his life . No memorial remains at Ar- pinum , to mark the birthplace of the great Roman orator ; 1 1 A similar story is ...
... perhaps awakening in his mind that eager desire for distinction and applause which became the ruling passion of his life . No memorial remains at Ar- pinum , to mark the birthplace of the great Roman orator ; 1 1 A similar story is ...
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... perhaps " regions " of Rome . It lay between the Cœlian and Esquiline mounts , and was then a fashionable quar- ter . Pompey had a house there . Virgil , I think En . viii . 361 , speaks of laute Carine . 2 Hist . of Rome , v . 30 ( Ed ...
... perhaps " regions " of Rome . It lay between the Cœlian and Esquiline mounts , and was then a fashionable quar- ter . Pompey had a house there . Virgil , I think En . viii . 361 , speaks of laute Carine . 2 Hist . of Rome , v . 30 ( Ed ...
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... perhaps at his recommendation , attended the lectures of the same professors or teachers whom he had used for the purposes of his own education . ) These seem to have been Greeks , and the object was not only to learn the language ...
... perhaps at his recommendation , attended the lectures of the same professors or teachers whom he had used for the purposes of his own education . ) These seem to have been Greeks , and the object was not only to learn the language ...
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... Perhaps the wiser plan would have been to allow a boy of such industry and aptitude to study both ; but if the choice lay between the two , beyond all doubt they acted rightly in giving preference to Greek , for Latin literature was ...
... Perhaps the wiser plan would have been to allow a boy of such industry and aptitude to study both ; but if the choice lay between the two , beyond all doubt they acted rightly in giving preference to Greek , for Latin literature was ...
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... perhaps not at all . Phædrus , the Epicurean , was one of his instructors , and he speaks of him in terms of peculiar regard . He was a He became also a pupil of the poet Archias . Greek who had come to Rome from Antioch when Cicero was ...
... perhaps not at all . Phædrus , the Epicurean , was one of his instructors , and he speaks of him in terms of peculiar regard . He was a He became also a pupil of the poet Archias . Greek who had come to Rome from Antioch when Cicero was ...
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Página 201 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage, and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once 'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!
Página 32 - 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 494 - The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
Página 57 - 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 478 - My sentence is for open war : of wiles, More unexpert, I boast not : them let those Contrive who need, or when they need, not now...
Página 320 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Página 6 - He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life!
Página 328 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Página 26 - Rome themselves presided at the trials — just as was the case sometimes in France in the middle ages — for we are told that the good king St. Louis, in the thirteenth century, used, after hearing mass in the summer season, to lay himself at the foot of an oak in the wood of Vincennes, and make his courtiers sit round him ; when all who wished were allowed to approach him, and he would ask aloud if there were any present who had suits.
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.