Marcus Tullius Cicero

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 keeps its good and bad characters carefully distinct. Olive ministers to the fallen Mary; Matthew, when he gets an opportunity, strangles his wife. In due course follows a court scene, and he is...

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...

Her husband had six surviving children already. AB had two daughters (who died young) before her two sons. In August 1557 she was hoping that her daughter Susan might get over her recurring fits of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

She begins her essay on old age (in the form of a letter to her daughter) by pointing out that Cicero has written on this topic too, to offer some guidance to those who have...

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...

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...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. According to critic...