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Side 242 - Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.
Side 19 - Czesarean (so to speak) in their tone of moral feeling. Thus, for example, the night before he was assassinated, he dreamt at intervals that he was soarIng above the clouds on wings, and that he placed his hand within the right hand of Jove.
Side 54 - Men like Mark Antony, with minds of chaotic composition — light conflicting with darkness, proportions of colossal grandeur disfigured by unsymmetrical arrangement, the angelic in close neighborhood with the brutal — are first read in their true meaning by an age learned in the philosophy of the human heart.
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4 De Quincey's Writings, Thomas De Quincey |
| Forfatter | Thomas De Quincey |
| Redaktør | James Thomas Fields |
| Udgiver | Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
| Oprindeligt fra | New York Public Library |
| Digitaliseret | 21. okt 2005 |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |