De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 15
... , has ever risen into strength and opulence , except where unusual artificial industry has availed to counteract the tendencies of nature . So entirely had Rome engrossed whatsoever was rich by the mere THE CESARS . 15.
... , has ever risen into strength and opulence , except where unusual artificial industry has availed to counteract the tendencies of nature . So entirely had Rome engrossed whatsoever was rich by the mere THE CESARS . 15.
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Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. entirely had Rome engrossed whatsoever was rich by the mere bounty of native endowment . ― Vast , therefore , unexampled , immeasurable , was the basis of natural power upon which the Roman throne ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. entirely had Rome engrossed whatsoever was rich by the mere bounty of native endowment . ― Vast , therefore , unexampled , immeasurable , was the basis of natural power upon which the Roman throne ...
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... entirely unknown , except to a few elaborate scholars . We purpose to collect from these obscure , but most interesting memorialists , a few sketches and biographical portraits of these great princes , whose public life is sometimes ...
... entirely unknown , except to a few elaborate scholars . We purpose to collect from these obscure , but most interesting memorialists , a few sketches and biographical portraits of these great princes , whose public life is sometimes ...
Side 31
... entirely the base machinery of ropes and pulleys , which sustained the miserable jugglery played off upon the popular credulity , impressed him perhaps even un- duly with contempt for those who could be its dupes . And we may add - that ...
... entirely the base machinery of ropes and pulleys , which sustained the miserable jugglery played off upon the popular credulity , impressed him perhaps even un- duly with contempt for those who could be its dupes . And we may add - that ...
Side 32
... entirely to estrange him from such themes . We find , accordingly , that though sincerely a despiser of superstition , and with a frankness which must sometimes have been hazardous in that age , Cæsar was himself also superstitious . No ...
... entirely to estrange him from such themes . We find , accordingly , that though sincerely a despiser of superstition , and with a frankness which must sometimes have been hazardous in that age , Cæsar was himself also superstitious . No ...
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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.