De Quincey's writings [ed. by J.T. Fields. 23 vols., comprising the final set of 22 and the original vol. 5, Life and manners, subsequently replaced by vol. 12, Autobiographic sketches].Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1856 |
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Side 242
... diffusive social benefits from the Oracle machinery , which must arrest the atten- tion of candid students , amidst some opposite monu- - ments of incorrigible credulity , or of elaborate impos- ture 242 THE PAGAN ORACLES .
... diffusive social benefits from the Oracle machinery , which must arrest the atten- tion of candid students , amidst some opposite monu- - ments of incorrigible credulity , or of elaborate impos- ture 242 THE PAGAN ORACLES .
Side 246
... Oracle superannuated or palsied . On the contrary , he found it but too clear - sighted ; and it was no contempt in him , but too ghastly a fear and jealousy , which labored to seal up the grander ministrations of the Oracle for the ...
... Oracle superannuated or palsied . On the contrary , he found it but too clear - sighted ; and it was no contempt in him , but too ghastly a fear and jealousy , which labored to seal up the grander ministrations of the Oracle for the ...
Side 247
... Oracle . But , in the mean time , the humbler and more domestic offices of this oracle , though nat- urally making no noise at a distance , seem long to have survived its state relations . And , apart from the sort of galvanism ...
... Oracle . But , in the mean time , the humbler and more domestic offices of this oracle , though nat- urally making no noise at a distance , seem long to have survived its state relations . And , apart from the sort of galvanism ...
Side 251
... , when insisting ( as many times he does insist ) , forty and even fifty years before the birth of Christ , on the languishing condition of the Delphic Oracle ? What evasion could they imagine here ? How could that THE PAGAN ORACLES . 251.
... , when insisting ( as many times he does insist ) , forty and even fifty years before the birth of Christ , on the languishing condition of the Delphic Oracle ? What evasion could they imagine here ? How could that THE PAGAN ORACLES . 251.
Side 252
... Oracle upwards of four centuries after Christ - that is suffi- cient . But if with this fact we combine the other fact , that all the principal Oracles had already be- gun to languish , more than two centuries before Christianity ...
... Oracle upwards of four centuries after Christ - that is suffi- cient . But if with this fact we combine the other fact , that all the principal Oracles had already be- gun to languish , more than two centuries before Christianity ...
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absolute admiration Alexander Ypsilanti Ali Pacha amongst ancient argument aristocratic Armatoles army authority believe called Cape lion century character Christian circumstances common connected Dale Delphic Delphic Oracle Demosthenes discipline enemy England English Epirus error existence expression fact fathers feeling gentleman Gordon Grecian Greece Greek guineas happened Herodotus Hetaria honor horses human hundred instance interest known Lady Carbery Laxton less Lord Brougham Lord Carbery Lord Massey Mahometan Manchester means Meantime ment mode modern moral Morea mother motive mysterious namely naturally never noble once Oracle original Oxford Pacha Pagan Paley peculiar Peloponnesus perhaps political pounds privilege profession purpose question rank reader reason regard religion revolution Schreiber seemed sense Serasker simply society spirit Suli Suliotes supposed thousand tion town truth Turkish Turks Van Dale vast Wallachia whilst whole word writers young
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Side 78 - Straight toward heaven my wondering eyes I turn'd, And gazed awhile the ample sky ; till, raised By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet : about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams...
Side 220 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen?
Side 78 - With supple joints, as lively vigor led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw.
Side 84 - Here, though spirited, the horses were pretty generally gentle, and all had been regularly broke. My education was not entirely neglected even as regarded sportsmanship ; that great branch of philosophy being confided to one of the keepers, who was very attentive to me, in deference to the interest in myself expressed by his idolized mistress, but otherwise regarded me probably as an object of mysterious curiosity rather than of sublunary hope. Equally, in fact, as regarded my physics and my metaphysics,...
Side 82 - Never in any equal number of months had my understanding so much expanded as during this visit to L'axton. The incessant demand made upon me by Lady Carbery for solutions of the many difficulties besetting the study of divinity and the Greek Testament, or for such approximations to solutions as my resources would furnish, forced me into a preternatural tension of all the faculties applicable to that purpose.
Side 21 - The portals of the dawn; all paradise Could, by the simple opening of a door, Let itself in upon him...
Side 197 - 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 211 - 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 21 - Arabian fiction never filled the world With half the wonders that were wrought for him. Earth breathed in one great presence of the spring ; Life turned the meanest of her implements, Before his eyes, to price above all gold ; The house she dwelt in was a sainted shrine ; Her chamber window did surpass in glory The portals of the dawn...
Side 131 - Is India free? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still?