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... nature of De Quincey's writings renders them specially fit for this kind of eclecticism . It is hoped that the present volume will prove an acceptable addition to our cur- rent literature , and induce a desire for a still farther ...
... nature of De Quincey's writings renders them specially fit for this kind of eclecticism . It is hoped that the present volume will prove an acceptable addition to our cur- rent literature , and induce a desire for a still farther ...
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... nature . Upon the style it is that these perplexities greatly depend for their illumination . " This wonderful " illumination " is cast by De Quincey's own 66 ― - 6 -- style over every topic it X INTRODUCTORY NOTICE .
... nature . Upon the style it is that these perplexities greatly depend for their illumination . " This wonderful " illumination " is cast by De Quincey's own 66 ― - 6 -- style over every topic it X INTRODUCTORY NOTICE .
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... natural expansion of my bodily strength , the danger had passed over . I have rendered solemn thanks for having been trained amongst the gentlest of sisters , and not under " horrid pugilistic brothers . " Meantime , one such brother I ...
... natural expansion of my bodily strength , the danger had passed over . I have rendered solemn thanks for having been trained amongst the gentlest of sisters , and not under " horrid pugilistic brothers . " Meantime , one such brother I ...
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... nature forced me into some trifle of exultation at these retrib- utory triumphs . But more often I was disposed to grieve over them . They tended to shake that solid foundation of utter despicableness upon which I relied so much for my ...
... nature forced me into some trifle of exultation at these retrib- utory triumphs . But more often I was disposed to grieve over them . They tended to shake that solid foundation of utter despicableness upon which I relied so much for my ...
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... natural tendency of circum- stances , I ought to be effeminate ; that is , there was reason to expect before hand that I should be so ; but , then , the more merit in me , if , in spite of such reason- able presumptions , I really were ...
... natural tendency of circum- stances , I ought to be effeminate ; that is , there was reason to expect before hand that I should be so ; but , then , the more merit in me , if , in spite of such reason- able presumptions , I really were ...
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Side 131 - That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages...
Side 310 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Side 159 - She, to my knowledge, sate all last summer by the bedside of the blind beggar, him that so often and so gladly I talked with, whose pious daughter, eight years old, with the sunny countenance, resisted the temptations of play and village mirth to travel all day long on dusty roads with her afflicted father.
Side 149 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
Side 422 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. 'Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? ' — Then ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old grey stone, And dream my time away.
Side 163 - Lo! here is he, whom in childhood I dedicated to my altars. This is he that once I made my darling. Him I led astray, him I beguiled, and from heaven I stole away his young heart to mine. Through me did he become idolatrous; and through me it was, by languishing desires, that he worshipped the worm, and prayed to the wormy grave. Holy was the grave to him; lovely was its darkness; saintly its corruption.
Side 173 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Side 149 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Side 160 - By the power of the keys it is that Our Lady of Tears glides a ghostly intruder into the chambers of sleepless men, sleepless women, sleepless children, from Ganges to the Nile, from Nile to Mississippi. And her, because she is the first-born of her house, and has the widest empire, let us honour with the title of
Side 155 - LEVANA AND OUR LADIES OF SORROW OFTENTIMES at Oxford I saw Levana in my dreams. I knew her by her Roman symbols. Who is Levana? Reader, that do not pretend to have leisure for very much scholarship, you will not be angry with me for telling you. Levana was the Roman goddess that performed for the newborn infant the earliest office of ennobling kindness...