 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 - 1859 - 572 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1898 - 232 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,... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 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,... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - Classical dictionaries - 1900 - 238 pages
...BC 338. 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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1901 - 416 pages
...And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament 5 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, 1o Madam,... | |
 | Edward Capps - Greek literature - 1901 - 514 pages
...ability, to 'The story that he committed suicide is probably a fable. Milton refers to it in the lines : " That dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent." a position of some importance in political life. He was sent on several embassies, twice as a colleague... | |
 | Edward Capps - Greek literature - 1901 - 532 pages
...that be committed snicide is probably a fable. Milton refer! to it in the lines : "That dishttnest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent." a position of some importance in political life. He was sent on several embassies, twice as a colleague... | |
 | Bowyer Nichols - Sonnets, English - 1903 - 302 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 ; l Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam,... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 432 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, An age of Though later born than to have known the days ignorance Wherein your father flourished, yet... | |
 | Dorothea Baker Townshend - Great Britain - 1904 - 600 pages
...enemy ever found a footing inside its tall black walls. CHAPTER XXIII AT BAY 1642 — 1643 ' .... as that dishonest victory, At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent.' MILTON, , SONNET TO THE LADY M. LEY.' STUBBORNLY as the English settlers fought, the summer of 1642... | |
 | John Milton - 1904 - 308 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... | |
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