De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 13
... enemy , con- fronted with the self - same virtues of enterprise and hardihood in his compatriot soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were ...
... enemy , con- fronted with the self - same virtues of enterprise and hardihood in his compatriot soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were ...
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... enemy , con- fronted with the self - same virtues of enterprise and hardihood in his compatriot soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were ...
... enemy , con- fronted with the self - same virtues of enterprise and hardihood in his compatriot soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were ...
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... dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced . him in quarters which his eye had never penetrated , and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear THE CÆSARS . 21.
... dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced . him in quarters which his eye had never penetrated , and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear THE CÆSARS . 21.
Side 22
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear . - By way of illustration we will cite a case from the life of the Emperor Commodus , which is wild enough to have furnished the plot of a ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear . - By way of illustration we will cite a case from the life of the Emperor Commodus , which is wild enough to have furnished the plot of a ...
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... enemies , who fell upon him as so many conspirators , and tore him limb from limb . If this anecdote were reported to Cæsar , which is not at all improbable , considering the earnestness with which his friends labored to dissuade him ...
... enemies , who fell upon him as so many conspirators , and tore him limb from limb . If this anecdote were reported to Cæsar , which is not at all improbable , considering the earnestness with which his friends labored to dissuade him ...
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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.