 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 xxxviiiby Demosthenes, Robert Whiston - 1859 - 572 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Preston (lexicographer.) - 1880 - 396 pages
...BC 838. It was the birthplace of Plutarch. Milton in one of his sonnets alludes to the place : — " That dishonest victory, At Chaeronea fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent." Isocrates is the " old man eloquent" thus alluded to. CHA'RON. A god of the infernal regions, son of... | |
 | John Milton - Fore-edge painting - 1881 - 528 pages
...more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that parliament Broke him, as that dishonest vietory 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 - 1882 - 396 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 - English poetry - 1883 - 252 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... | |
 | History - 1883 - 540 pages
...Certainly it became a proverb, that not Philip, but his gold, took the cities of Greece. — PLUTARCH. That dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. MILTON. Had they remained contented with their lot, and had not the Athenians and Lacedaemonians fallen... | |
 | John Milton - 1883 - 244 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 - English poetry - 1883 - 260 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... | |
 | Daniel Hack Tuke - Medicine, Psychosomatic - 1884 - 390 pages
...the cause of the fatal result ; as for example with Isocrates, to whom Milton's lines refer : " As that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty Killed with report that old man eloquent." Did he die of apoplexy or "a broken heart?" It is impossible to say. Rupture of pulmonary vessels.... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 344 pages
...the news of the battle of Chaero-nei'a. This explains the allusion in that sonnet of Milton's : as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea fatal to liberty Killed with report that old man eloquent. Po-lyb'i-us, the Greek historian, disapproved the statesmanship of Demosthenes. So in modern times... | |
 | 1889 - 584 pages
...7. Explain the following from Milton's Sonnets: — (a) The repeated air Of sad Electra's poet. (J) That dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. (c) Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning, worse than toad or asp, When... | |
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