De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... original impulse given to the feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness ...
... original impulse given to the feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness ...
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... - witted soldier , it did him service greater than all the subtilties of all the schools could have accom- plished , and a service which subsisted to the end of the war . Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original THE CÆSARS . 41.
... - witted soldier , it did him service greater than all the subtilties of all the schools could have accom- plished , and a service which subsisted to the end of the war . Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original THE CÆSARS . 41.
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Thomas De Quincey. Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original nature , there can be no doubt that he , like others , owed something to circumstances ; and perhaps , amongst those which were most favorable to the premature ...
Thomas De Quincey. Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original nature , there can be no doubt that he , like others , owed something to circumstances ; and perhaps , amongst those which were most favorable to the premature ...
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... original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects , as though the desperate condition of his private affairs had sug- gested a civil war to his calculations as the best or only mode of redressing it . But , on the contrary ...
... original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects , as though the desperate condition of his private affairs had sug- gested a civil war to his calculations as the best or only mode of redressing it . But , on the contrary ...
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... original grandeur which lay beneath that wild tempestuous nature presented by Anthony to the eye of the undiscriminating world . It is to the honor of Shakspeare , that he should have been able to discern the true coloring of this most ...
... original grandeur which lay beneath that wild tempestuous nature presented by Anthony to the eye of the undiscriminating world . It is to the honor of Shakspeare , that he should have been able to discern the true coloring of this most ...
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