De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 7
... Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius . But , if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome , if under him she forfeited ...
... Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius . But , if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome , if under him she forfeited ...
Side 15
... Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius . But , if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome , if under him she forfeited ...
... Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius . But , if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome , if under him she forfeited ...
Side 31
... Julius Cæsar was naturally a despiser of superstition . Mere strength of understanding would , perhaps , have made him so in any age , and apart from the circumstances of his per- sonal history . This natural tendency in him would ...
... Julius Cæsar was naturally a despiser of superstition . Mere strength of understanding would , perhaps , have made him so in any age , and apart from the circumstances of his per- sonal history . This natural tendency in him would ...
Side 42
... Julius to him , in the appropriate language of Shakspeare , ' The foremost man of all this world ? ' And , in this fine and Cæsarean line , this world ' is to be understood not of the order of co - existences merely , but also of the ...
... Julius to him , in the appropriate language of Shakspeare , ' The foremost man of all this world ? ' And , in this fine and Cæsarean line , this world ' is to be understood not of the order of co - existences merely , but also of the ...
Side 65
... Julius . That adoption made him , to all intents and purposes of law , the son of his great patron ; and doubtless , in a short time , this adoption would have been applied to more extensive uses , and as a station of vantage for ...
... Julius . That adoption made him , to all intents and purposes of law , the son of his great patron ; and doubtless , in a short time , this adoption would have been applied to more extensive uses , and as a station of vantage for ...
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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.