The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's SelectionMacmillan, 1887 - 432 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 63 - Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings; That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
الصفحة 298 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
الصفحة 298 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion: when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...
الصفحة 298 - I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow : when I see kings...
الصفحة 301 - I always had a refuge to go to where I might find peace, and in whose words of comfort and sweet society I could rid me of all my pains and griefs. Whereas now, under this terrible blow, even those old wounds which seemed to have healed up are bleeding afresh; for it is impossible for me now to find such a refuge from my sorrows at home in the business of the State, as in those days I did in that consolation of home, which was always in store whenever I came away sad from thoughts of State to seek...
الصفحة 312 - I told you, was a thing one would shrink from, but did not give much trouble. I am for Tusculum next after a short stay here. When he was passing Dolabella's house, but nowhere else, the whole guard was paraded in arms on either side of him as he rode ; I have it from Nicias. The allusion about Mamurra is obscure. Generally it is taken to mean certain scathing epigrams on Caesar and Mamurra, from the pen of the poet Catullus. " He never changed countenance," is Middleton's rendering, in place of...
الصفحة 297 - Ah me," I began to reflect to myself, "we poor feeble mortals, who can claim but a short life in comparison, complain as though a wrong was done us if one of our number dies in the course of...
الصفحة 292 - For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.
الصفحة 69 - As to what you say about our house — or rather its site — I for my part shall consider my restoration to be complete only when I find that it has been restored to me. But these things are not in our hands: what troubles me is, that in the outlay which must be incurred you, unhappy and impoverished as you are, must necessarily share. However, if we succeed in our object, I shall recover everything; but then, if...
الصفحة 296 - ... this kind office to others, yet nevertheless I have decided to write to you briefly such reflections as have occurred to me on the present occasion ; not that I imagine them to be ignored by you, but because it is possible that you may be hindered by your sorrow from seeing them as clearly as usual. What reason is there why you should allow the private grief which has befallen you to distress you so terribly ? Recollect how fortune, has hitherto dealt with us: how we have been bereft of all that...