De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 38
... Italian soil ; and , as if by inspiration from Heaven , in one moment involved himself and his followers in treason , raised the stand- ard of revolt , put his foot upon the neck of the invincible republic which had humbled all the ...
... Italian soil ; and , as if by inspiration from Heaven , in one moment involved himself and his followers in treason , raised the stand- ard of revolt , put his foot upon the neck of the invincible republic which had humbled all the ...
Side 115
... Italian history , as , for example , among the most profligate of the Papal houses , and amongst some of the Florentine princes , we find hardly any parallel to the atrocities of Caligula and Nero ; nor indeed was Tiberius much ( if at ...
... Italian history , as , for example , among the most profligate of the Papal houses , and amongst some of the Florentine princes , we find hardly any parallel to the atrocities of Caligula and Nero ; nor indeed was Tiberius much ( if at ...
Side 192
... Italy ; and the season , which happened to be winter , gave strength to their representations . What ! would the emperor be content for ever to hew out the frozen water with an axe before he could assuage his thirst ? And , again , the ...
... Italy ; and the season , which happened to be winter , gave strength to their representations . What ! would the emperor be content for ever to hew out the frozen water with an axe before he could assuage his thirst ? And , again , the ...
Side 196
... armies , he lured him also to destruction , under the belief that he was obeying the summons of his father to a private interview on the Italian frontier . - - So perished those enemies , if enemies they 196 THE CESARS .
... armies , he lured him also to destruction , under the belief that he was obeying the summons of his father to a private interview on the Italian frontier . - - So perished those enemies , if enemies they 196 THE CESARS .
Side 215
... Italy was the first object of attack . The senate had set a price upon his head ; but there was every probability that he would have triumphed , had he not disgusted his army by immoderate severities . It was , however , but reasonable ...
... Italy was the first object of attack . The senate had set a price upon his head ; but there was every probability that he would have triumphed , had he not disgusted his army by immoderate severities . It was , however , but reasonable ...
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Alexander Alexander Severus amongst ancient anecdotes army assassination Augustus Aurelian barbarians body Cæsar Caligula Caracalla Carus Cassius character Christian Cicero circumstances civic civil Commodus condition death Decius declension defeated Dioclesian discipline doubt doubtless effect Emilianus enemy express eyes fact father favor fear frontier Galerius Gallienus Gaul Goths grandeur habits Hadrian hand happened historians honors human nature imperial instance interest Julius Julius Cæsar king legions less luxury Macrinus Marcus Aurelius Maximin means memorable mighty military mode monarchy moral mother murder necessity Nero never NOTE notice Numerian occasion original palace party perhaps Persian Philip the Arab philosopher popular prætorian prince Probus prosperity provinces purpose rank reason reign remarkable republic republican revolution rival Roman emperor Roman empire Rome sacred seems senate sense Severus soldier spirit succession Suetonius supposed Sylla thousand throne tion troops true vast victory whilst whole writer
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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.