De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 15
... ancient world , but so perfectly did she lay the garden of the world in every climate , and for every mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever ...
... ancient world , but so perfectly did she lay the garden of the world in every climate , and for every mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever ...
Side 15
... ancient world , but so perfectly did she lay the garden of the world in every climate , and for every mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever ...
... ancient world , but so perfectly did she lay the garden of the world in every climate , and for every mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever ...
Side 16
... 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 continued to be Rome , for many a ...
... 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 continued to be Rome , for many a ...
Side 47
... ancient history ought to be recomposed with the critical scep- ticism of a Niebuhr , and the same comprehensive collation of authorities . In reality it is the hinge upon which turned the future destiny of the whole earth , and having ...
... ancient history ought to be recomposed with the critical scep- ticism of a Niebuhr , and the same comprehensive collation of authorities . In reality it is the hinge upon which turned the future destiny of the whole earth , and having ...
Side 96
... ancients , whether Greeks or Romans , had no eye for the picturesque ; nay , that it was a sense utterly unawakened ... ancient critic ; so that , whatever attraction for the eye might exist in the Rome of that day , there is little ...
... ancients , whether Greeks or Romans , had no eye for the picturesque ; nay , that it was a sense utterly unawakened ... ancient critic ; so that , whatever attraction for the eye might exist in the Rome of that day , there is little ...
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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.