DAUGHTER to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council and her Treasury, Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory... Demosthenes - Page xxxixby Demosthenes - 1859Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...sonnet to the Lady Margaret Leigh he again alludes to this great man, but without naming him : " As that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent." Dionysius of Halicarnassus entertained a no less lofty opinion of Isocrates : " Who, says he, can read... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him,—as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, in... | |
| Demosthenes - 1855 - 426 pages
...Xaipwvety /Jaxtjr uX'jfjffar £TeXevTqffcv etfeXovr^c. Milton refers to it in one of his sonnets : — As that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. purpose, framed chiefly by Hyperides and Demosthenes, were immediately passed in full assembly, ordering... | |
| Demosthenes - 1859 - 630 pages
...of the two Orators' lives. » De Ciar. Orat. xii. 4 Areopagitica, ii. 441, in Pickering's Edition. * This phrase was first used by Milton in his Sonnet...to have made a mistake on the subject. The allusion is to Isocrates, who died in his ninety-ninth year, атга-уг&вегтшч TÛV irepl Xcupiiveiav... | |
| John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...sonnet to the Lady Margaret Leigh he again alludes to this great man, but without naming him : " As that dishonest victory " At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Dionysius of Halicarnassus entertained a no less lofty opinion of Isocrates. " Who," says he, " can... | |
| Philip Smith - 1873 - 594 pages
...Macedonian making war upon the Athenians, and regulating the affairs of Greece ?" — DEMOSTHENES. ' ' That dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent."* — MILTON. ACCESSION OF PHILIP — BIS FIRST SUCCESSES — THE MACEDONIAN MONARCHY — EDUCATION AND... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent, Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks... | |
| John Milton - 1880 - 654 pages
...And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent, Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks... | |
| David M. Main - 1880 - 490 pages
...And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent, — Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam,... | |
| David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent, — Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam,... | |
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