De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 23
... effect , and then dismissed them as inde- pendent wanderers . So ends the first chapter of the tale . The next opens in the passes of the Alps , whither by various routes , of seven or eight hundred miles in extent , these men had ...
... effect , and then dismissed them as inde- pendent wanderers . So ends the first chapter of the tale . The next opens in the passes of the Alps , whither by various routes , of seven or eight hundred miles in extent , these men had ...
Side 34
... effect upon his feelings , and that , in fact , his own dream grew out of the impression which it had made . This way of linking the two anecdotes , as cause and effect , would also bring a third anecdote under the same nexus . We are ...
... effect upon his feelings , and that , in fact , his own dream grew out of the impression which it had made . This way of linking the two anecdotes , as cause and effect , would also bring a third anecdote under the same nexus . We are ...
Side 36
... profoundly agitated . The whole elements of the scene almost scenically disposed ; the law of antagonism having perhaps never been employed with so much were effect : the little quiet brook presenting a direct antith- 36 THE CÆSARS .
... profoundly agitated . The whole elements of the scene almost scenically disposed ; the law of antagonism having perhaps never been employed with so much were effect : the little quiet brook presenting a direct antith- 36 THE CÆSARS .
Side 37
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. effect : the little quiet brook presenting a direct antith- esis to its grand political character ; and the innocent dawn , with its pure , untroubled repose , contrasting potently , to a man of any ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. effect : the little quiet brook presenting a direct antith- esis to its grand political character ; and the innocent dawn , with its pure , untroubled repose , contrasting potently , to a man of any ...
Side 48
... effect : Know that within a few days the king will come up with us , bringing with him sixty thousand legionaries , thirty thousand cavalry , one hundred thousand light troops , besides three hundred elephants . Such being the 48 THE ...
... effect : Know that within a few days the king will come up with us , bringing with him sixty thousand legionaries , thirty thousand cavalry , one hundred thousand light troops , besides three hundred elephants . Such being the 48 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.