De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of ancient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many if we except the cities of Greece ...
... Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of ancient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many if we except the cities of Greece ...
Side 6
... Rome had her prerogative tribe ; the earth has its prerogative city ; and that city was Rome . was a As was the city , such was its prince - mysterious , solitary , unique . Each was to the other an adequate counterpart , each ...
... Rome had her prerogative tribe ; the earth has its prerogative city ; and that city was Rome . was a As was the city , such was its prince - mysterious , solitary , unique . Each was to the other an adequate counterpart , each ...
Side 7
... Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and ...
... Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and ...
Side 8
... Rome ; and , but for Rome , there could have been no such man as Cæsar . Both then were immortal ; each worthy of each . And the Cui viget nihil simile aut secundum of the poet , was as true of one as of the other . For , if by ...
... Rome ; and , but for Rome , there could have been no such man as Cæsar . Both then were immortal ; each worthy of each . And the Cui viget nihil simile aut secundum of the poet , was as true of one as of the other . For , if by ...
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... Rome to the greatest of all that has gone before her , and has yet come after her , would first be adequately revealed . The youngest reader will know that the grandest forms in which the collective might of the human race has ...
... Rome to the greatest of all that has gone before her , and has yet come after her , would first be adequately revealed . The youngest reader will know that the grandest forms in which the collective might of the human race has ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men ..., Bind 1 Thomas De Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2006 |
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