De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... to draw upon himself the emperor's eye , and the honor of his personal displeasure . In high wrath and disdain at the insults offered to his eagles by this fugitive slave , Commodus fulminated against him such an edict 22 THE CÆSARS .
... to draw upon himself the emperor's eye , and the honor of his personal displeasure . In high wrath and disdain at the insults offered to his eagles by this fugitive slave , Commodus fulminated against him such an edict 22 THE CÆSARS .
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... honors , with reverence as to a column of the Roman grandeur , and with fear and feminine anxieties as to one whose aspiring spirit carried him but too prematurely into the fields of adventurous honor . One slight and evanescent sketch ...
... honors , with reverence as to a column of the Roman grandeur , and with fear and feminine anxieties as to one whose aspiring spirit carried him but too prematurely into the fields of adventurous honor . One slight and evanescent sketch ...
Side 60
... honors would have been divided . Cicero himself was of that opinion ; and on different occasions applied the epithet Splendidus to Cæsar , as though in some exclusive sense , or with a peculiar emphasis , due to him . His taste was much ...
... honors would have been divided . Cicero himself was of that opinion ; and on different occasions applied the epithet Splendidus to Cæsar , as though in some exclusive sense , or with a peculiar emphasis , due to him . His taste was much ...
Side 63
... honors whenever he had occasion to mention him by name . Yet it was the whole Roman people that conferred upon him his title of Augustus . But Sir William , ascribing no force to the acts of a people who had sunk so low as to exult in ...
... honors whenever he had occasion to mention him by name . Yet it was the whole Roman people that conferred upon him his title of Augustus . But Sir William , ascribing no force to the acts of a people who had sunk so low as to exult in ...
Side 65
... honors , he would have been trained to mount , as from a stepping - stone , to the inheritance of the Julian power and political station ; and the Roman people would have been familiarized to regard him in that character . But , luckily ...
... honors , he would have been trained to mount , as from a stepping - stone , to the inheritance of the Julian power and political station ; and the Roman people would have been familiarized to regard him in that character . But , luckily ...
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