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Side 91
... murder . But as this taste , in the most ingenious hands , is limited and monotonous in its modes of manifestation , it would be tedious to run through the long Suetonian roll - call of his peccadilloes in this way . One only we shall ...
... murder . But as this taste , in the most ingenious hands , is limited and monotonous in its modes of manifestation , it would be tedious to run through the long Suetonian roll - call of his peccadilloes in this way . One only we shall ...
Side 92
... murder was abandoned , and the emperor addressed himself to other plans . The first of these was some curious mechanical device , by which a false ceiling was to have been sus- pended by bolts above her bed ; and in the middle of the ...
... murder was abandoned , and the emperor addressed himself to other plans . The first of these was some curious mechanical device , by which a false ceiling was to have been sus- pended by bolts above her bed ; and in the middle of the ...
Side 94
... murdered ! Provoking it certainly was ; and of a man like Nero it could not be expected that he should any longer dissemble his disgust , or put up with such repeated ... murder him , and as nobody could have suborned him but 94 THE CESARS .
... murdered ! Provoking it certainly was ; and of a man like Nero it could not be expected that he should any longer dissemble his disgust , or put up with such repeated ... murder him , and as nobody could have suborned him but 94 THE CESARS .
Side 95
... murdered quietly and in a civil way , they must expect that such forbearance is not to continue for ever ; and obviously have themselves only to blame for any harshness or violence which they may have rendered necessary . It is singular ...
... murdered quietly and in a civil way , they must expect that such forbearance is not to continue for ever ; and obviously have themselves only to blame for any harshness or violence which they may have rendered necessary . It is singular ...
Side 99
... murder , that he received the first intelligence of the revolt in Gaul under the Proprætor Vindex . This news for about a week he treated with levity ; and , like Henry VII . of England , who was nettled , not so much at THE CÆSARS . 66 99.
... murder , that he received the first intelligence of the revolt in Gaul under the Proprætor Vindex . This news for about a week he treated with levity ; and , like Henry VII . of England , who was nettled , not so much at THE CÆSARS . 66 99.
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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.