Marcus Tullius Cicero

The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint , who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM nevertheless found opportunities...

It was ten years since she had sketched out parts of this book, as what she then called a kind of second volume of The Human Condition. Its own third volume, Judging...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

Her editor Leah Marcus has emphasized that QE was a pioneer of the plain and pithy style in English called Senecan or Tacitean , in contrast to the elaborate, high-flown Ciceronian style which generally held...

The essays include Samuel Pepys and Francis Bacon , Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. The first, despite its title, is...

The letters of EM 's youth—to the Duchess of Portland and to her sister Sarah Scott —are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob . Her early claim about the...

Petrarch contributed importantly to the revival of learning when in the chapter library of Verona he discovered a manuscript containing letters by Cicero , whose text had been lost for centuries.

On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton dwells on the honorific funeral which Tollet, as a woman, would not have attended. On the analogy of Cicero 's restoration of the tomb of Archimedes , she...

Mary Delany said SCwould shine in an assembly composed of Tully s, Homer s, and Milton s. Though Homer and Cicero are connected chiefly with oral texts, the inclusion of Milton suggests that Delany...

An advertisement (dated 13 April 1810) promises to delineate not only friendship's pleasures but all the great and heroic deeds inspired by it. Even love consists of friendship, when it is abstracted from the...

She resisted still more firmly the conventions around opening and closing letters, having a detestation of lyeing epithets of humble servants and stuff, and dear Sir and nonsense. Pliny and Cicero and Paul never begun...

The second part opens with quotations from Cicero and Voltaire . It includes a picture of connubial love gone sour, turned to mutual wrongs, and mutual hate. Its examples of heroic friendship include...

Each of these two books opens with a quotation from Cicero ; the first goes on to relate (in the usual veiled terms) the history of the series, and provides a chronology (repeated in the...

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

Pro Aris et Focis shares the antifeminist tone of The Court Suburb Magazine. The Latin phrase, meaning for [our] altars and hearths, was used by Cicero and many others to imply devotion to sacred...