De Quincey's Writings, Bind 23Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... reader feel no alarm . Such a dissertation , and such a rehearsal , would be more painful to myself than they could be wearisome to him . For these things change their aspects according to the station from which they happen to be ...
... reader feel no alarm . Such a dissertation , and such a rehearsal , would be more painful to myself than they could be wearisome to him . For these things change their aspects according to the station from which they happen to be ...
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... reader will not accuse me of an aristocratic feeling , now that he understands what it is that I admire in the aristocracy , and with what limitation . It is my infirmity , if the reader chooses so to consider it , that I cannot frame ...
... reader will not accuse me of an aristocratic feeling , now that he understands what it is that I admire in the aristocracy , and with what limitation . It is my infirmity , if the reader chooses so to consider it , that I cannot frame ...
Side 14
... reader chooses , these ! infirmities , I was placed in a singularly fortunate position . My father , as I have said , had no brilliant qualities : but the moral integrity which I have attributed to his class , was so peculiarly ...
... reader chooses , these ! infirmities , I was placed in a singularly fortunate position . My father , as I have said , had no brilliant qualities : but the moral integrity which I have attributed to his class , was so peculiarly ...
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... readers are now much acquainted with this section of literature ; even the powerful sketches of Beaumont and Fletcher , who , in their comic delineations , approach to Shakspeare , lie covered with dust ; and yet , whilst these things ...
... readers are now much acquainted with this section of literature ; even the powerful sketches of Beaumont and Fletcher , who , in their comic delineations , approach to Shakspeare , lie covered with dust ; and yet , whilst these things ...
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... readers of this generation , and Sir Edward Pellew , ( afterwards Lord Exmouth , ) were the two * Paladins of the first war with revolutionary France . These two names were never mentioned but in connection with some splendid and ...
... readers of this generation , and Sir Edward Pellew , ( afterwards Lord Exmouth , ) were the two * Paladins of the first war with revolutionary France . These two names were never mentioned but in connection with some splendid and ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Note-Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2020 |
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Side 75 - ... guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away.
Side 22 - Meroe Nilotic isle, and more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Blackmoor sea ; From the Asian kings and Parthian among these, From India, and the golden Chersonese, And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed ; From Gallia, Gades, and the British west ; Germans, and Scythians, and Sarmatians, north Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool.
Side 141 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Side 286 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Side 93 - war, which still desolates that island, he lost " every thing, even to his wife, and his only child, " a daughter : they were taken on their passage to " France, and sent away to Jamaica. His eyes " would fill when he told the family that he had " not seen these dear relatives for six years past, " nor even had tidings of them for the last three
Side 265 - My eye had been couched into a secondary power of vision, by misery by solitude, by sympathy with life in all its modes, by experience too early won, and by the sense of danger critically escaped. Suppose the case of a man suspended by some colossal arm over an unfathomcd abyss — suspended, but finally and slowly withdrawn — it is probable that he would not smile for years. That was my case...
Side 278 - This fancy, often patronized by other writers, and even acted upon, resembles that restraint which some metrical writers have imposed upon themselves — of writing a long copy of verses from which some particular letter, or from each line of which some different letter, should be carefully excluded.
Side 57 - ... while the overruling music attempers the mind to the spectacle, the subject (as a German would say) to the object, the beholder to the vision. And, although this is known to be but one phasis of life — of life culminating and in ascent, — yet the other, and repulsive phasis is concealed upon the hidden or averted side of the golden arras, known but not felt: or is seen but dimly in the rear, crowding into indistinct proportions.
Side 37 - London ; the continual opening of transient glimpses into other vistas equally far stretching, going off at right angles to the one which you are traversing ; and the murky atmosphere which, settling upon the remoter end of every long avenue, wraps its termination in gloom and uncertainty, — all these are circumstances aiding that sense of vastness and illimitable proportions which forever brood over the aspect of London in its interior.
Side 53 - Talent is intellectual power of every kind, which acts and manifests itself by and through the will and the active forces. Genius, as the verbal origin implies, is that much rarer species of intellectual power which is derived from the genial nature — from the spirit of suffering and enjoying — from the spirit of pleasure and pain, as organised more or less perfectly ; and this is independent of the will. It is a function of the passive nature.