 | Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 էջ
...Roman empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres. There sat, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest...of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from the easel which has perpetuated so many noble foreheads; it had induced Panto suspend his labours in... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 էջ
...Roman empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of SicUy against Verres. There sat, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest...of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from the easel which has perpetuated so many HISTORY OF EUROPE. 9Э поЫе foreheads ; it had induced... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 էջ
...show of freedom, Cicero and Tacitus thundered against the oppressors of Sicily and Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age — Reynolds and Parr. The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar and bent his knee.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 էջ
...which had some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa; and there too, were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age; for the spectacle had ^allured Keynolds from his easel, and Parr, from his study. 4. The f sergeants... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 էջ
...the oppressor of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest scholar and the greatest painter of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from...sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parrf to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 էջ
...still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There, were seen, side by side, the greatest painter) and the...of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from the easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 866 էջ
...1779, the other sizes being in proportion. Of his portraits, which, as Macaulay has observed, " have preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons," the number is very considerable, and the technical merits, especially with respect to color and cHiaroscuro,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 888 էջ
...being in proportion. Of his portraits, which, as Mncaulay has observed, " have preserved to us tho thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons," the number is very considerable, and tho technical merits, especially with respect to color and chiaroscuro,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 էջ
...which had still some show of freedom, Tacitus 6 thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest...thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, 10 and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr f to suspend his labors in that... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 514 էջ
...s'ill retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen side by side the greatest painter and the greatest...us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesman, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours... | |
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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 still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen,... 
