De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 5
... Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many if we except the cities of ...
... Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many if we except the cities of ...
Side 6
... Rome had her prerogative tribe ; the earth has its prerogative city ; and that city was Rome . As was the city , such was its prince- mysterious , solitary , unique . Each was to the other an adequate counterpart , each reciprocally ...
... Rome had her prerogative tribe ; the earth has its prerogative city ; and that city was Rome . As was the city , such was its prince- mysterious , solitary , unique . Each was to the other an adequate counterpart , each reciprocally ...
Side 7
... Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and ...
... Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and ...
Side 8
... Rome promised and involved in the germ even that , and nothing less or different , did Rome unfold and accomplish under this Julian violence . The rape [ if such it were ] of Cæsar , her final Romulus , completed for Rome that which the ...
... Rome promised and involved in the germ even that , and nothing less or different , did Rome unfold and accomplish under this Julian violence . The rape [ if such it were ] of Cæsar , her final Romulus , completed for Rome that which the ...
Side 14
... Rome , therefore , which came last in the succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon ...
... Rome , therefore , which came last in the succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon ...
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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.