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Side 69
... honor of Shakspeare , that he should have been able to discern the true coloring of this most original character , under the smoke and tarnish of antiquity . It is no less to the honor of the great triumvir , that a strength of coloring ...
... honor of Shakspeare , that he should have been able to discern the true coloring of this most original character , under the smoke and tarnish of antiquity . It is no less to the honor of the great triumvir , that a strength of coloring ...
Side 72
... honor which was burdensome to all the parties con- cerned in it . Sometimes , however , we find that men , careless of honors in their own persons , are glad to see them settling upon their family and immediate con- nections . But here ...
... honor which was burdensome to all the parties con- cerned in it . Sometimes , however , we find that men , careless of honors in their own persons , are glad to see them settling upon their family and immediate con- nections . But here ...
Side 82
... honors , acknowledging merit even in an enemy , but Augustus they passed with scornful silence , or with loud re- proaches . Too certainly no man has ever contended for empire with unsullied conscience , or laid pure hands upon the ark ...
... honors , acknowledging merit even in an enemy , but Augustus they passed with scornful silence , or with loud re- proaches . Too certainly no man has ever contended for empire with unsullied conscience , or laid pure hands upon the ark ...
Side 97
... honors of the city . His- toric Rome then went to wreck for ever . Then perished the domus priscorum ducum hostilibus adhuc spoliis adornata ; the ' rostral ' palace ; the mansion of the Pompeys ; the Blenheims and the Strathfieldsays ...
... honors of the city . His- toric Rome then went to wreck for ever . Then perished the domus priscorum ducum hostilibus adhuc spoliis adornata ; the ' rostral ' palace ; the mansion of the Pompeys ; the Blenheims and the Strathfieldsays ...
Side 142
... honor of preferment of civil and political regulations . He was the fountain also of good and evil fame . He was the great chancellor , or supreme dispenser of equity to all climates , nations , languages , of his mighty dominions ...
... honor of preferment of civil and political regulations . He was the fountain also of good and evil fame . He was the great chancellor , or supreme dispenser of equity to all climates , nations , languages , of his mighty dominions ...
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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.