text:  Had he while bewailing the loss of that freedom which he would not survive disfigured as it was by popular tumult and patrician insolence--had he been told that a figure far more faultless was one day to arise amid the unknown forests and marshes of Britain and to be protected by the rude hands of her barbarous inhabitants till it reached the full maturity of immortal loveliness--the eloquence of Cicero himself would have been silenced and whatever might have been the exultation of the philosopher the pride of the Roman would have died within him