De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 25
... imperial bedchamber ; Cæsar is watching some mighty rebel of the Orient , at a distance of two thousand leagues , and he overlooks the dagger which is at his own heart . In short , all the heights and the depths which belong to man as ...
... imperial bedchamber ; Cæsar is watching some mighty rebel of the Orient , at a distance of two thousand leagues , and he overlooks the dagger which is at his own heart . In short , all the heights and the depths which belong to man as ...
Side 57
... imperial palaces , by pictures , busts , and statues ; for we find the same description of his personal appear- ance three centuries afterwards , in a work of the Emperor Julian's . He was a most accomplished horseman , and a master ...
... imperial palaces , by pictures , busts , and statues ; for we find the same description of his personal appear- ance three centuries afterwards , in a work of the Emperor Julian's . He was a most accomplished horseman , and a master ...
Side 58
... imperial regulations for the public carriages , & c . ) to the con- veyance of about half a ton . The mere personal baggage which Cæsar carried with him , was probably considerable , for he was a man of the most elegant habits , and in ...
... imperial regulations for the public carriages , & c . ) to the con- veyance of about half a ton . The mere personal baggage which Cæsar carried with him , was probably considerable , for he was a man of the most elegant habits , and in ...
Side 81
... imperial family so long as itself survived . Amongst other anecdotes of the same tendency , two are recorded of Nero , the emperor in whom expired the line of the original Cæsars , which strengthen us in a belief of what is otherwise in ...
... imperial family so long as itself survived . Amongst other anecdotes of the same tendency , two are recorded of Nero , the emperor in whom expired the line of the original Cæsars , which strengthen us in a belief of what is otherwise in ...
Side 90
... imperial mirth , he frankly owned to them , and doubtless he did not improve their appetites by this confession , that in fact he was laugh- ing , and that he could not but laugh , ( and then the monster laughed immoderately again ...
... imperial mirth , he frankly owned to them , and doubtless he did not improve their appetites by this confession , that in fact he was laugh- ing , and that he could not but laugh , ( and then the monster laughed immoderately again ...
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