 So ended Cicero, a tragic combination of magnificent talents, high aspirations, and 'true desire to do right, with an infirmity of purpose and a latent insincerity of character which neutralized and could almost make us forget his nobler qualities." "...  Julius Caesar - Page 424by James Anthony Froude - 1899 - 450 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1881 - 572 pages
...whether most to admire his powers of expression or to deprecate his want of reticence." Mr. Froude says: "So ended Cicero, a tragic combination of magnificent...could almost make us forget his nobler qualities." " In Cicero nature half made a great man and left him uncompleted. Our characters are written in our... | |
 | 1881 - 572 pages
...whether most to admire his powers of expression or to deprecate his want of reticence." Mr. Froude_says: "So ended Cicero, a tragic combination of magnificent...could almost make us forget his nobler qualities." "In Cicero nature half made a great man and left him uncompleted. Our characters are written Jn our... | |
 | 1879 - 592 pages
...when he describes Cicero " as a tragic combination of magnificent talents, high aspirations, and a true desire to do right, with an infirmity of purpose...could almost make us forget his nobler qualities." Of the literary skill of Mr. Froude's narrative and its sustained continuity of interest, it would... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1879 - 1410 pages
...not greatly quarrel with one sentence, in which Mr. Froude sums up his idea of his character :2U ' So ended Cicero, a tragic combination of magnificent...purpose and a latent insincerity of character which neutralised, and could almost make us forget, his nobler qualities.' But they will object that Mr.... | |
 | 1879 - 884 pages
...will not greatly quarrel with one sentence, iri which Mr. Froude sums up his idea of hi& character:20 'So ended Cicero, a tragic combination of magnificent...purpose and ' a latent insincerity of character which neutralised, and could almost make us forget, his nobler qualities.' But they will object that Mr.... | |
 | 1879 - 634 pages
...says Mr. Froude, ' is the second great figure in the history of ' the time.' He describes him as ' a tragic combination of ' magnificent talents, high...purpose and a latent insincerity of ' character which neutralised and could almost make us forget ' his nobler qualities.' ' In Cicero Nature half made a... | |
 | 1879 - 796 pages
...left him uncompleted." He was "a tragic combination of magnificent talents, high aspirations, and a true desire to do right, with an infirmity of purpose, and a latent insincerity of character which neutralised, and could almost make us forget his nobler qualities." " Cicero's natural place was at... | |
 | 1879 - 802 pages
...left him uncompleted." He was "a tragic combination of magnificent talents, high aspirations, and a true desire to do right, with an infirmity of purpose, and a latent insincerity of character which neutralised, and could almost make us forget his nobler qualities." " Cicero's natural place was at... | |
 | 1881 - 684 pages
...most to admire his powers of expression or to depre-cate his want of reticence." Mr. Froude says : " So ended Cicero, a tragic combination of magnificent...could almost make us forget his nobler qualities." " In Cicero nature half made a great man and left him uncompleted. Our characters are written in our... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1883 - 592 pages
...least, it differs so much from that of Froude that we would add a few lines from the latter : — " So ended Cicero, a tragic combination of magnificent...could almost make us forget his nobler qualities. ... In Cicero, nature half-made a great man and left him uncompleted. Our characters are written in... | |
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