De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 39
... occasion where he was recriminating upon the other party , and complaining that stratagems , which they might practise with impunity , were denied to him and his , happened to point the moral of his complaint , by alleging the old adage ...
... occasion where he was recriminating upon the other party , and complaining that stratagems , which they might practise with impunity , were denied to him and his , happened to point the moral of his complaint , by alleging the old adage ...
Side 51
... occasion as that of his debts ; but that his debts were in their very first origin purely min- isterial to his ambition ; and that his revolutionary plans were at all periods of his life a direct and fore- most object . In this there ...
... occasion as that of his debts ; but that his debts were in their very first origin purely min- isterial to his ambition ; and that his revolutionary plans were at all periods of his life a direct and fore- most object . In this there ...
Side 52
... any hope in them , to escape his participation . It is familiarly known that he was engaged pretty deeply in the con- spiracy of Cataline , 11 and that he incurred considerable - - risk on that occasion ; but it is less 52 THE CÆSARS .
... any hope in them , to escape his participation . It is familiarly known that he was engaged pretty deeply in the con- spiracy of Cataline , 11 and that he incurred considerable - - risk on that occasion ; but it is less 52 THE CÆSARS .
Side 53
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. - risk on that occasion ; but it is less known , and has indeed escaped the notice of historians generally , that he was a party to at least two other conspiracies . There was even a fourth ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. - risk on that occasion ; but it is less known , and has indeed escaped the notice of historians generally , that he was a party to at least two other conspiracies . There was even a fourth ...
Side 56
... occasion of these spectacles exhibited by Cæsar . In our days , the greatest occasional gatherings of the human race are in India , especially at the great fair of the Hurdwar , in the northern part of Hindostan ; a confluence of many ...
... occasion of these spectacles exhibited by Cæsar . In our days , the greatest occasional gatherings of the human race are in India , especially at the great fair of the Hurdwar , in the northern part of Hindostan ; a confluence of many ...
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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.