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Side 16
... tion she only of all the monarchies has feared no mortal hand , " ' God and his Son except , Created thing nought valued she nor shunned . ' That the possessor and wielder of such enormous power -power alike admirable for its extent ...
... tion she only of all the monarchies has feared no mortal hand , " ' God and his Son except , Created thing nought valued she nor shunned . ' That the possessor and wielder of such enormous power -power alike admirable for its extent ...
Side 24
... proscrip- tion against himself . Such , amidst his superhuman grandeur and conse- crated powers of the Roman emperor's office , were the extraordinary perils which menaced the individual , and the peculiar 24 THE CÆSARS .
... proscrip- tion against himself . Such , amidst his superhuman grandeur and conse- crated powers of the Roman emperor's office , were the extraordinary perils which menaced the individual , and the peculiar 24 THE CÆSARS .
Side 29
... tion , ( unum accessisse sobrium ad rempublicam delen- dam . ) In reality , Lucan did not think as he wrote . He had a purpose to serve ; and in an age when to act like a freeman was no longer possible , he determined at least to write ...
... tion , ( unum accessisse sobrium ad rempublicam delen- dam . ) In reality , Lucan did not think as he wrote . He had a purpose to serve ; and in an age when to act like a freeman was no longer possible , he determined at least to write ...
Side 36
... tion of his night wanderings predisposed him to nervous irritation , -Cæsar , we may be sure , was profoundly agitated . The whole elements of the scene almost scenically disposed ; the law of antagonism having perhaps never been ...
... tion of his night wanderings predisposed him to nervous irritation , -Cæsar , we may be sure , was profoundly agitated . The whole elements of the scene almost scenically disposed ; the law of antagonism having perhaps never been ...
Side 56
... tion of business or of pleasure , as to Rome on 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 ...
... tion of business or of pleasure , as to Rome on 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 ...
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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.