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... respects , upon politics , there were great differences of opinion , especially throughout the American war , until the French Revolution began to change its first features of promise . After that , a great monotony of opinion prevailed ...
... respects , upon politics , there were great differences of opinion , especially throughout the American war , until the French Revolution began to change its first features of promise . After that , a great monotony of opinion prevailed ...
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... respect to my father's last illness and death . It was during my infancy , that a house and suitable grounds , & c . , were commenced by my father on a scale rather suited to the fortune which , by all accounts , he was rapidly ...
... respect to my father's last illness and death . It was during my infancy , that a house and suitable grounds , & c . , were commenced by my father on a scale rather suited to the fortune which , by all accounts , he was rapidly ...
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... respect . Yet , considering how often the reputation of power becomes , for international purposes , nothing less than power itself , and that words , in many relations of human life , are emphatically things , and sometimes are so to ...
... respect . Yet , considering how often the reputation of power becomes , for international purposes , nothing less than power itself , and that words , in many relations of human life , are emphatically things , and sometimes are so to ...
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... respect . I have always reverenced a man of whom it could be truly said , that he had once , and once only , been desperately in love ; in love , that is to say , in a terrific excess , so as to dally , under suitable circumstances ...
... respect . I have always reverenced a man of whom it could be truly said , that he had once , and once only , been desperately in love ; in love , that is to say , in a terrific excess , so as to dally , under suitable circumstances ...
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... respect to your Ladyship's anxiety to know how far the acquaintance with Mr. X. Y. Z. is likely to be of ser- vice to your son , I think I may now venture to say that ' There the sibylline fragment ended ; nor could we torture it into ...
... respect to your Ladyship's anxiety to know how far the acquaintance with Mr. X. Y. Z. is likely to be of ser- vice to your son , I think I may now venture to say that ' There the sibylline fragment ended ; nor could we torture it into ...
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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.
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| Titel | De Quincey's Writings, Bind 23 De Quincey's Writings, James Thomas Fields |
| Forfatter | Thomas De Quincey |
| Redaktør | James Thomas Fields |
| Udgiver | Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
| Oprindeligt fra | New York Public Library |
| Digitaliseret | 26. okt 2005 |
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