De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 16
... allowed by this scourge of ancient days ; the total penalty is paid down at once . As respected the hand of man , Rome slept for ages in absolute security . She could suffer only by the wrath of Providence ; and , so long as she ...
... allowed by this scourge of ancient days ; the total penalty is paid down at once . As respected the hand of man , Rome slept for ages in absolute security . She could suffer only by the wrath of Providence ; and , so long as she ...
Side 19
... allowed . And we may be sure that , amongst them , the Roman emperor , as the great accountant for the happiness of more men , and men more cultivated , than ever before were intrusted to the motions of a single will , had a special ...
... allowed . And we may be sure that , amongst them , the Roman emperor , as the great accountant for the happiness of more men , and men more cultivated , than ever before were intrusted to the motions of a single will , had a special ...
Side 24
... allowed , the murderers were to have pene- trated as maskers to the emperor's retirement , when a casual word or two awoke the suspicions of a sentinel . One of the conspirators was arrested ; under the terror and uncertainty of the ...
... allowed , the murderers were to have pene- trated as maskers to the emperor's retirement , when a casual word or two awoke the suspicions of a sentinel . One of the conspirators was arrested ; under the terror and uncertainty of the ...
Side 49
... allowed about two hundred pounds a man to the infantry , and four hundred to the cavalry . It is true that the legionary troops were then much reduced by the sword of the enemy , and by the - tremendous hardships of their last campaigns ...
... allowed about two hundred pounds a man to the infantry , and four hundred to the cavalry . It is true that the legionary troops were then much reduced by the sword of the enemy , and by the - tremendous hardships of their last campaigns ...
Side 54
... allowed to him for the accomplishment of his mission raised him for a number of years above all fear of coercion or control , he persevered steadily in the same plan of providing for the day when he might need assistance , not from the ...
... allowed to him for the accomplishment of his mission raised him for a number of years above all fear of coercion or control , he persevered steadily in the same plan of providing for the day when he might need assistance , not from the ...
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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.