De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 25
... Whilst the emperor's mighty arms were stretched out to arrest some potentate in the heart of Asia , a poor slave is silently and stealthily creeping round the base of the Alps , with the purpose of winning his way as a murderer to the ...
... Whilst the emperor's mighty arms were stretched out to arrest some potentate in the heart of Asia , a poor slave is silently and stealthily creeping round the base of the Alps , with the purpose of winning his way as a murderer to the ...
Side 33
... whilst a crowd of other birds were seen to hang upon its flight in close pursuit . What might be the object of the chase , whether the little king himself , or a sprig of laurel which he bore in his mouth , could not be determined . The ...
... whilst a crowd of other birds were seen to hang upon its flight in close pursuit . What might be the object of the chase , whether the little king himself , or a sprig of laurel which he bore in his mouth , could not be determined . The ...
Side 36
... whilst the exhaus- 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 ...
... whilst the exhaus- 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 ...
Side 38
... 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 Cape of Storms , ( 38 THE CÆSARS .
... 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 Cape of Storms , ( 38 THE CÆSARS .
Side 39
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. whilst attempting to double the Cape of Storms , ( Cape of Good Hope , ) a ludicrous passage , in which one felicitous blunder did Cæsar a better service than all the truths which Greece and Rome ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. whilst attempting to double the Cape of Storms , ( Cape of Good Hope , ) a ludicrous passage , in which one felicitous blunder did Cæsar a better service than all the truths which Greece and Rome ...
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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.