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... Cicero dwells at considerable length upon this subject , and , in his favourite style of antithesis , charges the Roman orators with having abandoned nature to the actors . " Hæc ego dico pluribus , quod genus hoc totum oratores , qui ...
... Cicero dwells at considerable length upon this subject , and , in his favourite style of antithesis , charges the Roman orators with having abandoned nature to the actors . " Hæc ego dico pluribus , quod genus hoc totum oratores , qui ...
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... Cicero is gentleness and insinuation . In the one , you find more manli- ness ; in the other , more ornament . The one is more harsh , but more spirited and cogent ; the other , more agreeable , but withal , looser and weaker . 12 ...
... Cicero is gentleness and insinuation . In the one , you find more manli- ness ; in the other , more ornament . The one is more harsh , but more spirited and cogent ; the other , more agreeable , but withal , looser and weaker . 12 ...
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... Cicero ' , the innocence of Wis- dom ' , and the intelligence of all ' , though faintly amiable in the creature , are found in immense perfection in the Creator . 10 MEMBERS . - The beauty of a plain ' , the greatness of a mountain ...
... Cicero ' , the innocence of Wis- dom ' , and the intelligence of all ' , though faintly amiable in the creature , are found in immense perfection in the Creator . 10 MEMBERS . - The beauty of a plain ' , the greatness of a mountain ...
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... Cicero concludes his celebrated books De Oratore , with some precepts for pronunciation and action , without which part he affirms , that the best orator in the world can never succeed , and an indifferent one , who is master of this ...
... Cicero concludes his celebrated books De Oratore , with some precepts for pronunciation and action , without which part he affirms , that the best orator in the world can never succeed , and an indifferent one , who is master of this ...
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... those matters which most determine human character , there is a perfect re- semblance . Aristotle , and Plato , and Thucydides , and Cicero , and Tacitus , are most untruly called ancient writers ; 90 MISCELLANEOUS LESSONS .
... those matters which most determine human character , there is a perfect re- semblance . Aristotle , and Plato , and Thucydides , and Cicero , and Tacitus , are most untruly called ancient writers ; 90 MISCELLANEOUS LESSONS .
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Page 383 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 72 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters ! if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honorable men. I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
Page 381 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 365 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 64 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 380 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 314 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 50 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 363 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 381 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...