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Side 23
... According to this man's gigantic enterprise , in which the means were as audacious as the purpose , the conspirators were to rendezvous , and first to recog- nise each other at the gates of Rome . From the Danube to the Tiber did this ...
... According to this man's gigantic enterprise , in which the means were as audacious as the purpose , the conspirators were to rendezvous , and first to recog- nise each other at the gates of Rome . From the Danube to the Tiber did this ...
Side 38
... epic dignity , which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco de Gama , ( according to the narrative of Ca- moens , ) when met and confronted by a sea phantom whilst attempting to double the Cape of Storms , ( 38 THE CÆSARS .
... epic dignity , which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco de Gama , ( according to the narrative of Ca- moens , ) when met and confronted by a sea phantom whilst attempting to double the Cape of Storms , ( 38 THE CÆSARS .
Side 47
... according to some accounts , it was not Sylla , but the creatures of Sylla ( adjutores ) , who pursued Cæsar . We know , at all events , that Sylla formed a right estimate of Cæsar's character , and that , from the complexion of his ...
... according to some accounts , it was not Sylla , but the creatures of Sylla ( adjutores ) , who pursued Cæsar . We know , at all events , that Sylla formed a right estimate of Cæsar's character , and that , from the complexion of his ...
Side 55
... according to every known variety of nautical equipment and mode of con- flict , upon a vast lake formed artificially for that express purpose . Mimic land - fights were conducted , in which all the circumstances of real war were so ...
... according to every known variety of nautical equipment and mode of con- flict , upon a vast lake formed artificially for that express purpose . Mimic land - fights were conducted , in which all the circumstances of real war were so ...
Side 56
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. the emperor's grave . Never before , according to tra ditions which lasted through several generations in Rome , had there been so vast a conflux of the human race congregated to any one centre , on ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. the emperor's grave . Never before , according to tra ditions which lasted through several generations in Rome , had there been so vast a conflux of the human race congregated to any one centre , on ...
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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.