De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 14
... succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon all that its predecessors in that career had ...
... succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon all that its predecessors in that career had ...
Side 15
... succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon all that its predecessors in that career had ...
... succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon all that its predecessors in that career had ...
Side 38
... succession to this incident of epic dignity , which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco de Gama , ( according to the narrative of Ca- moens , ) when met and confronted by a sea phantom whilst attempting to double the ...
... succession to this incident of epic dignity , which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco de Gama , ( according to the narrative of Ca- moens , ) when met and confronted by a sea phantom whilst attempting to double the ...
Side 79
... succession of hindrances in the way of his conqueror , argues some essential defect of system . Under our modern policy , military power - though it may be the growth of one man's life soon takes root ; a succession of campaigns is ...
... succession of hindrances in the way of his conqueror , argues some essential defect of system . Under our modern policy , military power - though it may be the growth of one man's life soon takes root ; a succession of campaigns is ...
Side 80
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. root ; a succession of campaigns is required for its extirpation ; and it revolves backwards to its final extinction through all the stages by which originally it grew . On the Roman system this was ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. root ; a succession of campaigns is required for its extirpation ; and it revolves backwards to its final extinction through all the stages by which originally it grew . On the Roman system this was ...
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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.