Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Том 1

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C. Scribner, 1865 - Всего страниц: 14
 

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Стр. 43 - 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...
Стр. 75 - 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.
Стр. 43 - He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Стр. 42 - 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.
Стр. 260 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes UpQn his visage, and that all the walls, With painted imagery, had said at once, — "Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!
Стр. 83 - 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.
Стр. 18 - He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life!
Стр. 167 - 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.
Стр. 35 - 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.
Стр. 260 - ... fields, and brought their wives and families to see him as he passed. And from distant places deputations were sent to meet him, so that the roads were crowded by the throng. It was the gala week of all Italy, and his entry into every town and village on his route was the signal for a festive holiday. But his greatest triumph was yet to come. As he approached the Capitol by the Via Appia,* in September, the Senate came forth in a body beyond the walls to welcome him.

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