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Side 11
... feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries ! Splen ...
... feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries ! Splen ...
Side 15
... feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another beaver , and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries ! Spien ...
... feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another beaver , and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries ! Spien ...
Side 17
... feeling are sometimes gross and overcharged , as we find them in the very greatest of the Roman poets : for example , it shocks us to find a fine writer , in anticipating the future canonization of his patron , and his instalment ...
... feeling are sometimes gross and overcharged , as we find them in the very greatest of the Roman poets : for example , it shocks us to find a fine writer , in anticipating the future canonization of his patron , and his instalment ...
Side 18
... feeling was exaggerated , but because it was expressed coarsely , and as a physical power : now , every thing physical is measurable by weight , motion , and resistance ; and is therefore definite . But the very essence of whatsoever is ...
... feeling was exaggerated , but because it was expressed coarsely , and as a physical power : now , every thing physical is measurable by weight , motion , and resistance ; and is therefore definite . But the very essence of whatsoever is ...
Side 29
... feeling towards Nero ; and , as the single means he had for gratifying that , resolved upon sacrificing the grandeur of Cæsar's character wherever it should be found possible . Mean- time , in spite of himself , Lucan for ever betrays ...
... feeling towards Nero ; and , as the single means he had for gratifying that , resolved upon sacrificing the grandeur of Cæsar's character wherever it should be found possible . Mean- time , in spite of himself , Lucan for ever betrays ...
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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.