De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 17
... emperor , as the depositary of this charmed power , should have been looked upon as a sacred person , and the imperial family considered a divina domus . ' It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally ...
... emperor , as the depositary of this charmed power , should have been looked upon as a sacred person , and the imperial family considered a divina domus . ' It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally ...
Side 18
... emperor a sanctity which he had not in the minds of men universally , or which even to the writer's feeling was exaggerated , but because it was expressed coarsely , and as a physical power : now , every thing physical is measurable by ...
... emperor a sanctity which he had not in the minds of men universally , or which even to the writer's feeling was exaggerated , but because it was expressed coarsely , and as a physical power : now , every thing physical is measurable by ...
Side 19
... 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 , singular , and mysterious relation to the secret counsels of ...
... 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 , singular , and mysterious relation to the secret counsels of ...
Side 20
... emperor in his life- time.7 To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance , which in some measure altered the whole for the individual who happened to fill the office . The emperor de facto ...
... emperor in his life- time.7 To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance , which in some measure altered the whole for the individual who happened to fill the office . The emperor de facto ...
Side 21
... emperor : if he took the wings of the morning , and fled to the uttermost parts of the earth , there also was the emperor or his lieutenants . But the same omnipres- ence of imperial anger and retribution which withered the hopes of the ...
... emperor : if he took the wings of the morning , and fled to the uttermost parts of the earth , there also was the emperor or his lieutenants . But the same omnipres- ence of imperial anger and retribution which withered the hopes of the ...
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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.