De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 5
... severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other distinctions , is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification ; à fortiori , then , will it belong to a city which counted from ...
... severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other distinctions , is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification ; à fortiori , then , will it belong to a city which counted from ...
Side 15
... severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other distinctions , is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification ; à fortiori , then , will it belong to a city which counted from ...
... severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other distinctions , is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification ; à fortiori , then , will it belong to a city which counted from ...
Side 45
... severity which history has made so memorable . He had neither any distinct grounds of hope , nor any eminent example at that time , to countenance him in this struggle — which yet he pushed on in the most uncompromising style , and to ...
... severity which history has made so memorable . He had neither any distinct grounds of hope , nor any eminent example at that time , to countenance him in this struggle — which yet he pushed on in the most uncompromising style , and to ...
Side 46
... done something ; but it is due to Sylla , who had a sympathy with every thing truly noble , to suppose him struck with powerful admiration for the audacity of the young patrician , standing out in such severe 46 THE CÆSARS .
... done something ; but it is due to Sylla , who had a sympathy with every thing truly noble , to suppose him struck with powerful admiration for the audacity of the young patrician , standing out in such severe 46 THE CÆSARS .
Side 47
... severe solitude among so many examples of timid concession ; and that to this magnanimous feeling in the Dictator , much of his indulgence was due . In fact , according to some accounts , it was not Sylla , but the creatures of Sylla ...
... severe solitude among so many examples of timid concession ; and that to this magnanimous feeling in the Dictator , much of his indulgence was due . In fact , according to some accounts , it was not Sylla , but the creatures of Sylla ...
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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.