De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 9
... throne , and scarcely known to him but as objects of disdain . But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire , which embraced the whole δικεμενι the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog- nised ...
... throne , and scarcely known to him but as objects of disdain . But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire , which embraced the whole δικεμενι the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog- nised ...
Side 10
... throne ? The Byzantine court which , merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that august throne , was drunk with excess of pride , surrounded itself with elaborate expressions of a grandeur beyond what mortal eyes were supposed ...
... throne ? The Byzantine court which , merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that august throne , was drunk with excess of pride , surrounded itself with elaborate expressions of a grandeur beyond what mortal eyes were supposed ...
Side 11
... 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- dor , thus transmitted , thus sustained , and thus ...
... 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- dor , thus transmitted , thus sustained , and thus ...
Side 15
... throne , and scarcely known to him but as objects of disdain . But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire , which embraced the whole zer - the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog nised by ...
... throne , and scarcely known to him but as objects of disdain . But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire , which embraced the whole zer - the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog nised by ...
Side 15
... throne ? The Byzantine court which , merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that august throne , was drunk with excess of pride , surrounded itself with elaborate expressions of a grandeur beyond what mortal eyes were supposed ...
... throne ? The Byzantine court which , merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that august throne , was drunk with excess of pride , surrounded itself with elaborate expressions of a grandeur beyond what mortal eyes were supposed ...
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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.