De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 16
... once . As respected the hand of man , Rome slept for ages in absolute security . She could suffer only by the wrath of Providence ; and , so long as she continued to be Rome , for many a genera- tion she only of all the monarchies has ...
... once . As respected the hand of man , Rome slept for ages in absolute security . She could suffer only by the wrath of Providence ; and , so long as she continued to be Rome , for many a genera- tion she only of all the monarchies has ...
Side 39
... once witnessed a blunder about as gross . The present Chancellor , in his first electioneering contest with the Lowthers , upon some occasion where he was recriminating upon the other party , and complaining that stratagems , which they ...
... once witnessed a blunder about as gross . The present Chancellor , in his first electioneering contest with the Lowthers , upon some occasion where he was recriminating upon the other party , and complaining that stratagems , which they ...
Side 40
... once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman — simply as such - - wore as the inseparable adjunct and symbol of his rank . By this action he wished to give emphasis to the accompa- nying words , in which he protested ...
... once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman — simply as such - - wore as the inseparable adjunct and symbol of his rank . By this action he wished to give emphasis to the accompa- nying words , in which he protested ...
Side 62
... once observed , that if that question were left to be collected from the suffrages already expressed in books , and scattered throughout the literature of all nations , the scale would be found to have turned pro- digiously in Cæsar's ...
... once observed , that if that question were left to be collected from the suffrages already expressed in books , and scattered throughout the literature of all nations , the scale would be found to have turned pro- digiously in Cæsar's ...
Side 64
... once proclaimed his civic gran- deur , and concealed his baldness , a defect which was more mortifying to a Roman than it would be to ourselves , from the peculiar theory which then pre- vailed as to its probable origin . A gratitude of ...
... once proclaimed his civic gran- deur , and concealed his baldness , a defect which was more mortifying to a Roman than it would be to ourselves , from the peculiar theory which then pre- vailed as to its probable origin . A gratitude of ...
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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.