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 viii
... Societies . But all this is below the occasion .. I feel that far grander interests are at stake in this contest . The Peace Societies are falsely appreciated , when they are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience , and ...
... Societies . But all this is below the occasion .. I feel that far grander interests are at stake in this contest . The Peace Societies are falsely appreciated , when they are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience , and ...
Side ix
... Societies would , if their power kept pace with their guilty purposes , work degradation for man by drawing upon his most effeminate and luxurious cravings for ease . Most heartily , and with my profoundest sympathy , do I go along with ...
... Societies would , if their power kept pace with their guilty purposes , work degradation for man by drawing upon his most effeminate and luxurious cravings for ease . Most heartily , and with my profoundest sympathy , do I go along with ...
Side xiv
... society so favorable to an adventurous cast of incidents , that they would everywhere pass for romances , if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to facts . In the for- mer class stand the admirable novels of De Foe ...
... society so favorable to an adventurous cast of incidents , that they would everywhere pass for romances , if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to facts . In the for- mer class stand the admirable novels of De Foe ...
Side xv
... society at that period in Spanish America , that a reader the most credulous would at times be startled with doubts upon what seems so unvarying a tenor of dan- ger and lawless violence . But , on the other hand , it is also undeni ...
... society at that period in Spanish America , that a reader the most credulous would at times be startled with doubts upon what seems so unvarying a tenor of dan- ger and lawless violence . But , on the other hand , it is also undeni ...
Side 20
... in my first year of life , she , an orphan and a great heiress , was in her tenth or eleventh . " See closing pages of " Autobiographic Sketches . " delightful society , and her sweet , Irish style of 20 THE ORPHAN HEIRESS .
... in my first year of life , she , an orphan and a great heiress , was in her tenth or eleventh . " See closing pages of " Autobiographic Sketches . " delightful society , and her sweet , Irish style of 20 THE ORPHAN HEIRESS .
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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?