De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 18
... authority , must be invested by all minds alike with . some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the next world . Thus , for instance , the Pope , as the father of Catholic Christendom , could not but be viewed with awe by ...
... authority , must be invested by all minds alike with . some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the next world . Thus , for instance , the Pope , as the father of Catholic Christendom , could not but be viewed with awe by ...
Side 43
... authority does not annihilate their sex ; and scruples of female delicacy interfere for ever to un- nerve and emasculate in their hands the sceptre however otherwise potent . Hence we see , in noble families , the merest boys put ...
... authority does not annihilate their sex ; and scruples of female delicacy interfere for ever to un- nerve and emasculate in their hands the sceptre however otherwise potent . Hence we see , in noble families , the merest boys put ...
Side 47
... authorities . In reality it is the hinge upon which turned the future destiny of the whole earth , and having therefore a common relation to all modern nations whatsoever , should naturally have been culti- vated with THE CÆSARS . 47.
... authorities . In reality it is the hinge upon which turned the future destiny of the whole earth , and having therefore a common relation to all modern nations whatsoever , should naturally have been culti- vated with THE CÆSARS . 47.
Side 84
... authority , he was baffled , dishon- ored , and made ridiculous . He was loved by nobody ; and if , at the moment of his death , he desired his friends to dismiss him from this world by the common expression of scenical applause , ( vos ...
... authority , he was baffled , dishon- ored , and made ridiculous . He was loved by nobody ; and if , at the moment of his death , he desired his friends to dismiss him from this world by the common expression of scenical applause , ( vos ...
Side 87
... authority : - On some occasion it happened that a dearth prevailed , either generally of cattle , or of such cattle as were used for feeding the wild beasts reserved for the bloody exhibitions of the amphitheatre . Food could be had ...
... authority : - On some occasion it happened that a dearth prevailed , either generally of cattle , or of such cattle as were used for feeding the wild beasts reserved for the bloody exhibitions of the amphitheatre . Food could be had ...
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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.