De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... looked upon as a sacred person , and the imperial family considered a " divina domus . " It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are ...
... looked upon as a sacred person , and the imperial family considered a " divina domus . " It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are ...
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... , we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has perhaps 26 THE CESARS .
... , we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has perhaps 26 THE CESARS .
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... looked down even upon the brilliant Sylla as an illiterate person , - to class such a man with the race of furious destroyers exulting in the desolations they spread , is to err not by an individual trait , but by the whole genus . The ...
... looked down even upon the brilliant Sylla as an illiterate person , - to class such a man with the race of furious destroyers exulting in the desolations they spread , is to err not by an individual trait , but by the whole genus . The ...
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... looked down upon him with maternal pride and delight , she loo ' ed up to him with female ambition as the re - edifier of her husband's honors , with reverence as to a column of the Roman grandeur , and with fear and feminine anxieties ...
... looked down upon him with maternal pride and delight , she loo ' ed up to him with female ambition as the re - edifier of her husband's honors , with reverence as to a column of the Roman grandeur , and with fear and feminine anxieties ...
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... looked about her too sharply to leave much hope in that scheme : so that also was abandoned . Next , he con- ceived the idea of an artificial ship , which , at the touch of a few springs , might fall to pieces in deep water . Such a ...
... looked about her too sharply to leave much hope in that scheme : so that also was abandoned . Next , he con- ceived the idea of an artificial ship , which , at the touch of a few springs , might fall to pieces in deep water . Such a ...
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